The mystery therefore of the sheep, which God has bidden you sacrifice as the Passover, was a type of Christ, with whose blood they who believe on Him anoint their own houses, namely themselves, corresponding to their faith in Him. For that the form in which God formed Adam, became the house of the inbreathing that God gave, you can all perceive. And that also this commandment was given only for a season, I will now prove,
God does not allow the sheep of the Passover to be sacrificed at any other place than that on which His name has been called, knowing that there would come a time after Christ had suffered, when even the place of Jerusalem would be handed over to your enemies, and all offerings should completely cease to be.
And that sheep which was commanded to be roasted whole was a figure of the suffering of the cross, by which Christ was to suffer. For when the sheep is being roasted it is roasted arranged in fashion like the fashion of the cross, for one spit is pierced straight from the lower parts to the head, and one again at the back, to which also the paws of the sheep are fastened.
And the two goats at the Fast that are commanded at the Fast, which by God’s command must be alike, of which one became the Scapegoat, and the other an offering, were an announcement of the two Advents of Christ; of one Advent, in which the elders of your people and the priests, laying their hands on Him and putting Him to death, sent Him off as a scapegoat; and of His second Advent, because in the same place of Jerusalem you will recognize Him who was dishonoured by you. For He was an offering on behalf of all sinners who wish to repent, and fast with the fast which Isaiah reckons such, when they pluck asunder (that is to say) the knots of hard contracts and keep the other points likewise which are enumerated by him, as I have myself already related, which they do who believe Jesus.
Now that there is no permission for the offering of the two goats which were commanded to be brought at the Fast to take place anywhere save in Jerusalem, you are fully aware.