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Remains of the Second and Third Centuries
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Introductory Notice to Remains of the Second and Third Centuries.
[3588] Cureton, for the last clause, gives “as thou wilt,” remarking that the sense is obscure. The literal rendering is, “if thou wilt,” the consequent clause being unexpressed. “If you please, accept them,” seems what is meant.
II. From the Discourse on Soul and Body.
[3589] By Melito, bishop of Sardis.
[3590] *** seems to be the true reading, not the *** of the printed ms.
[3591] [Such passages sustain the testimony of Jerome and others, that this venerable and learned Father was an eloquent preacher.]
III. From the Discourse on the Cross.
[3592] By the same.
[3593] Or “wove—a body from our material.”
[3594] Lit. “changing.”
[3595] Lit. “He was everything.”
[3596] Of Melito the bishop.
[3597] By Melito, bishop of Attica. [Of this epigraph, which becomes Ittica below, I have never seen a sufficient explanation.]
[3598] Lit. “the Lamb without voice.”
[3599] The Greek γλωσσόκομον.
[3600] [For Phlegon’s testimony, see references, vol. vii. p. 257. But note Lightfoot, Ap. F., part ii. vol. i. p. 512; his remark on Origen, Celsus, vol. iv. p. 437, this series.]
[3601] This is the rendering of ***; but Cureton has “fled,” as though he read ***.
[3602] By the holy Melito, bishop of the city of Ittica. [For Melito, in Lightfoot’s Apost. Fathers, consult part ii. vol. i. pp. 133, 328, 428, 443–446, 468–469, 494. See Lardner, Credib., vol. ii. 157, etc.; Westcott, Canon, p. 246. See Polycrates, infra; on which consult Schaff, History, etc., vol. ii. p. 736. Above all, see Routh, R. S., tom. i. pp. 113–153.]
[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] 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.]
[3605] He was bishop of Laodicea, and suffered martyrdom during the persecution under M. Aurelius Antonius.—Migne.
[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.
[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.”
II. From the Apology Addressed to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
[3608] In Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., l. c.
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