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| From the Work on the Passover.
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Fragments.3603
| 3603 The following
Fragments of Melito are translated from the Greek, except No. IX.,
which is taken from the Latin. |
I.
From the Work on the Passover.3604
| 3604 In Eusebius,
Hist. Eccl., iv. 26. [Melito wrote two books on the
Paschal and one On the Lord’s Day (ὁ περὶ
κυριακῆς
λόγος), according to
Eusebius. But is this On the Lord’s Day other than
one of the books on the Paschal? It may be doubted. Routh
refers us to Barnabas. See vol. i. cap. 15, note 7, p. 147, this
series. See also Dionysius of Corinth, infra.] |
When Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, at
the time that Sagaris3605
| 3605 He was bishop
of Laodicea, and suffered martyrdom during the persecution under M.
Aurelius Antonius.—Migne. | suffered
martyrdom, there arose a great controversy at Laodicea concerning
the time of the celebration of the Passover, which on that
occasion had happened to fall at the proper season;3606
| 3606 The churches
of Asia Minor kept Easter on the fourteenth day from the new moon,
whatever day of the week that might be; and hence were called
Quartodecimans. Other churches, chiefly those of the West,
kept it on the Sunday following the day of the Jewish passover.
In the case here referred to, the 14th of the month occurred on the
Sunday in question. | and this treatise was then
written.3607
| 3607 Migne, not
so naturally, punctuates otherwise, and renders, “which had
happened then to fall at the proper season, and on that occasion
this treatise was written.” |
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