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Christ as the defeater of death (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity




03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices




03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices



Keywords
Christ
resurrection
Period
2nd century CE
Roman Empire
Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars


Text
Melito of Sardis, Peri Pascha 102:
I am he who destroyed death
and triumphed over the enemy
and tread down Hades
and bound the strong one
and bore man away to the heights of heaven.

Melito of Sardis, Peri Pascha 13.22-25:
But when our Lord arose from the dead
having trodden down death
and bound the strong one and released man,
then all creation understood that it was for man’s sake
that the judge was judged …


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Melito of Sardis, Peri Pascha 102
Melito of Sardis, Peri Pascha 13.22-25

Bibliography

Hill 2001, 260-261Hill, Charles E. Regnum caelorum. Patterns of millennial thought in early Christianity. Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co 2001 (second edition).

Amar Annus


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