Origen, on Exod 12:8

“And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.”

“Christians eat the flesh of the lamb every day, that is, they consume daily the flesh of the Word. "For Christ our pasch is sacrificed." And because the law of the pasch is such that it is eaten in the evening, for this reason the Lord suffered in the evening of the world, that you may always eat of the flesh of the Word, because you are always in the evening until the morning comes. And if in this evening you shall be anxious and "in weeping and fasting" and shall lead your life in every labor of justice, you shall be able to say, "In the evening weeping shall have place and in the morning gladness." For you shall rejoice in the morning, that is, in the world to come, if in this world you have gathered "the fruit of justice" in weeping and labor.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.