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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From the Oration on Our Lord’s Passion.100 Anastasius, Guide, ch. 12.

God has suffered from the right hand of Israel.101 [῾Ο Θεος πεπονθεν ὑπὸ δεξίας ᾽Ισραηλίτιδος. Compare Tatian, vol. ii. p. 71, note 2; also Origen, vol. iv. p. 480, note 4, this series. And see Routh, R. S., i. p. 148. So “God put to death,” p. 757, supra.]