This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord's Passover. The posture of the Passover meal is traveling posture — dressed for departure, sandals on, staff in hand. The community eats as people about to move, not as people settling in for a long evening. Luke 12:35–36 commands readiness in similar terms: be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return. The urgency of Passover — eating in haste, ready to go — becomes the posture of Christian eschatological expectation. The believer who receives the body and blood of Christ in the Lord's Supper is not settling permanently but passing through, eating at the table of a Lord who will return.

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