reference to it between the NT and that Father; and with this fact we may compare the silence of the earlier writers about Easter; but, as Duchesne remarks (Orig. viii. § 4), Pentecost is implied rather than explicitly mentioned in early Christian writings. .—The fortieth day after Easter was not, so far as we know, observed as a commemoration of our Lord’s going up to heaven until at least the middle of the 4th century. In the Edessene Canons (can. 9) the Ascension is observed with
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