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To: null and void

The Passover Seder is taken on the 14th day of Nisan. This is locates a High Sabbath day. This day can fall on a day of the Julian week which is not a Friday. This year, Nisan 14 falls on April 22, a Friday. But in another year it could fall on a mid-week day, as it did the year Jesus was crucified.

When Polycarp of Smyrna walked to Rome in his old age, to fight the heresies arising there among the believers in Rome, he went to stop the Roman believers from having the crucifixion and Lords Table switched tot he pagan holiday commemorating 'Easter'. Polycarp and the believers across Asia Minor celebrated the Lord's Table on Nisan 14, not the Easter Sunday of the pagans.

15 posted on 03/27/2016 8:19:06 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)

18 posted on 03/27/2016 8:38:04 AM PDT by null and void (This is "They live", and most people would rather fight you than put on the glasses...)

Nobody in Rome knew anything about any holiday called “Easter,” which is a Germanic word, and there were lots of ideas about when to celebrate the holiday, called in Greek “Pascha,” in Polycarp’s day. But I’m unaware of Polycarp ever “walking to Rome in his old age”. Did you mean perhaps Ignatius?

37 posted on 03/27/2016 9:13:09 PM PDT by Campion (Halten Sie sich unbedingt an die Lehre!)

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