Saint Paul remarked, “Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Cor. 5:7). The impaling of the Passover lamb on two crossed wooden spits would prompt anyone to think of the cross. The followers of Jesus easily identified him as the Passover Lamb, the perfect sacrifice, the Only and Beloved Son offered by his Father, in completion and fulfillment of what had merely been hinted at by Abraham’s binding of his beloved and only begotten son, Isaac, who also willingly consented.
