You make it sound as if the Easter date at Nicaea was *changed* from what it had always been. Not so. From Eusebius's History of the Church:
Chapter XXIII. The Question Then Agitated Concerning the Passover. 1 A Question of no small importance arose at that time. For the parishes of all Asia, as from an older tradition, held that the fourteenth day of the moon, on which day the Jews were commanded to sacrifice the lamb, should be observed as the feast of the Saviour's passover.343 It was therefore necessary to end their fast on that day, whatever day of the week it should happen to be. But it was not the custom of the churches in the rest of the world to end it at this time, as they observed the practice which, from apostolic tradition, has prevailed to the present time, of terminating the fast on no other day than on that of the resurrection of our Saviour.The Quartodeciman custom was followed by the disciples of St. John in Asia....but it was not followed anywhere else. The majority of the churches around 150 or so followed the Sunday Easter. Irenaeus traces that custom in Rome at least back to Pope Sixtus I around 115-125 A.D.; and the fact that it was already very widespread a few years after suggests that it was probably itself an old tradition.
Nicaea *standardized* the date, it did not change the date.
You make it sound as if the Easter date at Nicaea was *changed* from what it had always been. Not so. From Eusebius's History of the Church:
Chapter XXIII. The Question Then Agitated Concerning the Passover.Nicaea *standardized* the date, it did not change the date.
1 A Question of no small importance arose at that time.
For the parishes of all Asia, as from an older tradition,
held that the fourteenth day of the moon, on which day the Jews
were commanded to sacrifice the lamb, should be observed as the
feast of the Saviour's passover.343 It was therefore necessary to
end their fast on that day, whatever day of the week it should happen
to be. But it was not the custom of the churches in the rest of the world
to end it at this time, as they observed the practice which,
from apostolic tradition, has prevailed to the present time,
of terminating the fast on no other day than on that of the resurrection of our Saviour.The Quartodeciman custom was followed by the disciples of St. John in Asia....
but it was not followed anywhere else. The majority of the churches around 150
or so followed the Sunday Easter. Irenaeus traces that custom in Rome at
least back to Pope Sixtus I around 115-125 A.D.; and the fact that it was already
very widespread a few years after suggests that it was probably itself an old tradition.
83 posted on 07/10/2006 10:43:10 AM MDT by Claud
What I can glean from the the last paragraph Thank you.
b'shem Y'shua
is that when John, the last Disciple died, Paganism
ran rampant in the church, particularly the Roman church.
Anti-semitism entered the church; hence the movement
away from the Holy Word of G-d and
towards the Traditions of man.