Melito,, Saint, Bishop of Sardis

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On Pascha: with the fragments of Melito and other material r…

by Melito,, Saint, Bishop of Sardis

fromSt. Vladimir's Seminary Press "popular patristics" series

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"The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha on the same occasion that the Jews observed Passover. In this work, Alistair Stewart-Sykes, the leading authority on Melito and the Quartodecimans, presents a unique …

The present study examines the paschal sermon of Melito of Sardis, entitled Peri Pascha (“On the Passover”) (c. AD 160–170), which, drawing from Exodus 12, proclaims Israel's slaughtered paschal lamb as a “type” of the crucified Christ. Our goal is to examine allusions to anothe…