Melito, the Philosopher.

 Melito, the Philosopher.

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 This is He who took a bodily form in the Virgin, and was hanged upon the tree, and was buried within the earth, and suffered not dissolution He who r

 He that bore up the earth was borne up on a tree. The Lord was subjected to ignominy with naked body—God put to death, the King of Israel slain!

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 Head of the Lord — His simple Divinity because He is the Beginning and Creator of all things: in Daniel.

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From the Work on the Passover.65

When Servilius Paulus was proconsul of Asia, at the time that Sagaris66 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;67 and this treatise was then written.68