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The Church Fathers · c. 160–170
On Pascha
Peri Pascha
Melito of Sardis · d. c. 180
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What it is
A rhetorically dazzling Easter sermon reading the Passover lamb as a figure of Christ, in surging parallel clauses built for performance rather than study.
Why it lasted
The finest surviving piece of second-century Christian rhetoric — and, in its charge of deicide against Israel, an early source of a poison the church carried for centuries.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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