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On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans: Translation is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Quartodecimans were early Christians who maintained the tradition derived from Judaism, and observed Pascha at the same time that the Jews observed Passover. In this work, Alistair Stewart, the leading authority on Melito and the Quartodecimans, presents a unique collection of material in a formal ideal for classroom use as well as for the general reader. At the head of this newly revised...

dying, he directed that he should be interred alive, so that he should not be found silent. As he was walled up his voice cried out that he should declaim again if he were only to be given a body.57 Declamation for Polemo was more than a livelihood, it was a life, and the point of life was to declaim. It is in this light that we should understand Polycrates’ statement about Melito, who in the resurrection will find fulfillment of his own episkopē, rather than the empty hope of Polemo to have a body
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