The New Pope Is A Continuation Of The Globalist Takeover Of The Catholic Church
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ON PASCHA MELITO OF SARDIS (2nd century Asia)
For those better than I have said: we should obey God rather than
people
Late in the second century, Victor, then leading bishop in
Rome was moving the believers away from the scriptures and was practicing what was right in man's eyes. Asian Christians in particular kept a festival on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month of Nisan, at the same time as the Jewish Passover, at which they commemorated the death and resurrection of the Lord Whatever the manner in which he became involved, a letter from Polycrates, bishop of Ephesus, to Victor is recorded by Eusebius, in which are mentioned notable figures who had kept Pascha on the fourteenth of Nisan. Among them is mentioned “Melito the eunuch who governed entirely in the Holy Spirit, who lies at Sardis.
Eusebius* account of the Quartodeciman (the 14th) controversy at Rome at the end o f the second century (Ecclesiastical
History, 5.23-24)
23) Now there was stirred up at that time a dispute of no
small moment, for all the residents of Asia, for whom this was
an ancient tradition, held it necessary to keep the feast of the
Pascha of the Savior on the fourteenth day of the moon, when
the Jews are commanded to sacrifice the sheep.
24) Polycrates was the leader of the bishops of Asia, who
firmly maintained that they should keep the custom which had
been handed down to them from ancient times. And he himself
sets down the tradition as it had come down to him in the following letter which he wrote to Victor and to the church of the
Romans.
For we keep the day without interference, neither adding
nor subtracting. And there are in Asia great lights who
have died, and will rise again on the day of the coming of
the Lord, when he comes with glory from the heavens
and shall raise all the saints: Philip of the twelve apostles, who lies in Hierapolis, and two of his daughters
who grew old in virginity. And there is another daughter
of his who rests, having served the church in the Holy
Spirit. And there is indeed John who lay on the breast of
the Lord, who was a priest wearing the breastplate, and
who was a martyr and a teacher.9 He lies at Ephesus. And
indeed there is Polycarp in Smyrna, both bishop and
martyr, and Thraseas from Eumeneia, who lies at
Smyrna. And is it necessary to speak of Sagaris, bishop
and martyr, who lies at Laodicea? And there is Papirius
the blessed, and Melito the eunuch, who governed all
things in the Holy Spirit, and who lies at Sardis awaiting
the visitation from the heavens when he shall be raised from the dead. All of these kept the fourteenth day as the
Pascha in accordance with the Gospel, not deviating
from the rule of faith but maintaining it. And then there
is myself, Polycrates, the least of all; I have kept to the
tradition of my race, some of whom I have followed. For
seven of my race were bishops, and I am the eighth.10
And my race always kept the day when the people put
away the leaven. I therefore, brothers, sixty five years in
the Lord and having had commerce with brothers from
the whole world and having spanned the whole of holy
scripture, am not frightened by threats. >>>>>For those better
than I have said: we should obey God rather than
people. <<<<<
To these remarks he adds comment concerning the many
bishops who were present with him and agreed with him.
I might record the bishops who are with me, whom I invited when you desired that I should invite them. If I should write their names they would be a great multitude. They see me, the least of men, and they have approved this letter, knowing that I do not have gray hair for nothing but that I have conducted myself always in
the Lord Jesus. At this, Victor, presiding over Rome sought to cut off straightaway the churches of all of the community of Asia
from the common union, together with those which neighbored upon them, on the grounds of heterodoxy. He denounced them in letters proclaiming that the brethren there were entirely out of union. But this was not to the liking of all the overseers, and they pleaded with him to have a mind to those things which are conducive to peace and to unity with one’s neighbors and to common charity.
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