This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
Ver. 2. This month.] Called Abib in Exodus 13:4; with us called March or April; when the day lengthening, and the sun ascending, each thing begins to revive. To show, saith one, that by the true Passover, Christ Jesus, not only is our time and all other things sanctified, but also that we should in recent remembrance of that benefit of our redemption, all our days and years be thankful to our gracious Redeemer, and that by his death, true life and reviving came unto mankind.
It shall be the first month,] viz., In respect of sacred, not civil affairs, as Junius here proveth out of Josephus. a The jubilees began in September. Lev 25:8 Exo 23:16 The creation of the world began then, as some will have it: but Luther and others think it was in the spring rather.
a Antiq., lib. i. cap. 4.