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| How All came to an Agreement respecting the Passover.
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Chapter
XXV.—How All came to an Agreement
respecting the Passover.
1. Those in Palestine whom we have recently mentioned,
Narcissus and Theophilus,1717
| 1717 In chaps. 22 and 23. For particulars in regard to them, see chap.
22, notes 6 and 7. | and with them
Cassius,1718
| 1718 Cassius and Clarus are otherwise unknown men. | bishop of the church of Tyre, and
Clarus of the church of Ptolemais, and those who met with them,1719
| 1719 i.e. in the Palestinian council mentioned in chap. 23. Upon this
and the other councils held at the same period, see chap. 23, note
2. | having stated many things respecting the
tradition concerning the passover which had come to them in succession
from the apostles, at the close of their writing add these words:1720
| 1720 This fragment is given, with annotations, by Routh, Rel.
Sac. II. p. 3 sq. English translation in the Ante-Nicene
Fathers, VIII. p. 774. |
2. “Endeavor to send
copies of our letter to every church, that we may not furnish occasion
to those who easily deceive their souls. We show you indeed that also
in Alexandria they keep it on the same day that we do. For letters are
carried from us to them and from them to us, so that in the same manner
and at the same time we keep the sacred day.”1721
| 1721 These epistles, like all the rest written at this time on the
paschal question, are now lost (see chap. 23, note 4). | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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