So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that [they] may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Ver. 6. Sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren.] Not by auricular confession, or the like; but by holy exhortations, to cast away the idols of their hearts, and to come to the sacrament with the best preparation they can make. The Sybarites, when they invited to a feast, gave their women a year's warning to deck, and trim, and prepare themselves. Should not people long before prepare, when to come to the Lord's table?