St. Melito of Sardis - On the Passover

"For the one who was born as Son, and led to slaughter as a lamb, and sacrificed as a sheep, and buried as a man, rose up from the dead as God."

A vernacular version of the earliest surviving Easter vigil homily by a second-century bishop about whom little is known.

Full text: https://www.kerux.com/doc/0401A1.asp

Alternate translation: https://sachurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/On-Pascha-Melito-of-Sardis.pdf

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