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On Pascha

Peri Pascha

Written about 160 to 170, probably in Sardis (now Sart, Turkey). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

An Easter sermon in rich poetic prose on the Passover lamb and the death of Christ.

Homily · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable

Hall, Melito of Sardis: On Pascha and Fragments (1979): about 160 to 170

Place written probable

Eusebius, Church History 4.26: Melito was bishop of Sardis; this is a sermon for his church at Passover