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Date Posted: 15:11:28 11/12/03 Wed
Author: Russell
Subject: Nissan 14 communion

OK - lets start with some History first and get a little background to the scriptures - read this and tell me what you think of it ......

62. The Paschal Controversies.

The Christians of Asia Minor, following the Jewish chronology, and appealing to the authority of the apostles John and Philip, celebrated the Christian Passover uniformly on the fourteenth of Nisan (which might fall on any of the seven days of the week) by a solemn fast; they fixed the close of the fast accordingly, and seem to have partaken on the evening of this day, as the close of the fast, but indeed of the Jewish paschal lamb, as has sometimes been supposed, 330 but of the communion and love-feast, as the Christian passover and the festival of the redemption completed by the death of Christ. 331 The communion on the evening of the 14 th (or, according to the Jewish mode of reckoning, the day from sunset to sunset, on the beginning of the 15 th) of Nisan was in memory of the last pascha supper of Christ. This observance did not exclude the idea that Christ died as the true paschal Lamb. For we find among the fathers both this idea and the other that Christ ate the regular Jewish passover with his disciples, which took place on the14 th. 332 From the day of observance the Asiatic Christians were afterwards called Quartadecimanians. 333 Hippolytus of Rome speaks of them contemptuously as a sect of contentious and ignorant persons, who maintain that "the pascha should be observed on the fourteenth day of the first month according to the law, no matter on what day of the week it might fall." 334 Nevertheless the Quartadecimanian observance was probably the oldest and in accordance with the Synoptic tradition of the last Passover of our Lord, which it commemorated. 335

(from Schaff's History of the Church, Electronic Database Copyright (c)1999 by Biblesoft)

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