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  • Jesus offered himself to the Father as the Passover lamb on this night—a sacrifice to spare people from their sins, just as the blood of the Passover lamb spared the lives of the Hebrews when they marked their door-posts with its blood so the angel of death would know to pass over them.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • Jesus offered himself to the Father as the Passover lamb on this night—a sacrifice to spare people from their sins, just as the blood of the Passover lamb spared the lives of the Hebrews when they marked their door-posts with its blood so the angel of death would know to pass over them.

    Maundy Thursday: Mass and Priesthood Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • For a long time, all sorts of imprints of bloody hands were visible on the door-posts.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Roland saw fragments of Gothic pillars richly carved, occupying the place of door-posts to the meanest huts; and here and there a mutilated statue, inverted or laid on its side, made the door-post, or threshold, of a wretched cow-house.

    The Abbot 2008

  • “Ashjár,” which may mean either the door-posts or the wooden bolts.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Answer: The Jews had to wipe this on their door-posts on the night before the Exodus

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • On one of the door-posts at this inn, was a tin plate, whereon was inscribed in characters of gold, ‘Doctor Crocus;’ and on a sheet of paper, pasted up by the side of this plate, was a written announcement that Dr. Crocus would that evening deliver a lecture on Phrenology for the benefit of the Belleville public; at

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • In addition to this, I noticed that the door-posts, themselves, were gnawed in places.

    The House on the Borderland 2007

  • Jesus offered himself to the Father as the Passover lamb on this night—a sacrifice to spare people from their sins, just as the blood of the Passover lamb spared the lives of the Hebrews when they marked their door-posts with its blood so the angel of death would know to pass over them.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2005

  • Jesus offered himself to the Father as the Passover lamb on this night—a sacrifice to spare people from their sins, just as the blood of the Passover lamb spared the lives of the Hebrews when they marked their door-posts with its blood so the angel of death would know to pass over them.

    Sermon for Maundy Thursday Fr Timothy Matkin 2005

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