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To: DouglasKC; Agrarian; The_Reader_David; MarMema; Kolokotronis; kosta50
The greek word originally meant just that, Passover, the day ordained by God. Over the centuries it became corrupted and came to mean the holiday, Easter, as well.

This is hilarious. Let me ping some of my chums who are familiar with Greek over here to dissect this. Surely they have a heart to enlighten the ignorant on this score.

I am most curious to see how they take to the idea that while the Greeks initially meant "Pascha" to mean "Passover", now they mean "Pascha" to mean "Pagan Easter Bunny Festival", and the Greek Church has lost all memory of "Passover", despite still calling the feast you insist on naming "Easter" for "Pagan Easter Bunny Egg Worship Day" as "Pascha" meaning "Passover".

115 posted on 04/09/2006 8:52:31 PM PDT by Calabash
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To: Calabash; kerryusama04; DouglasKC
This is hilarious. Let me ping some of my chums who are familiar with Greek over here to dissect this

Let them dissect this while you're at it. Here is the early church fathers celebrating "The Passover" on the 14th of Nisan/Abib. They are not celebrating "Easter" nor are they celebrating on a "Sunday". The council of Nicea fixed the celebration of Easter into the "tradition" of the church in 325 a.d.

Polycrates....were talking late 2nd century here!

118 posted on 04/09/2006 9:05:43 PM PDT by Diego1618
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To: Calabash

Actually, the feast we call Pascha only occasionally coincides with the Latin Easter.

And we certainly remember that it is Passover. The hymnography of the feast speaks of Christ passing over from death to life, and uses the Passover of the Old Covenant as a type--liberation from material slavery as a type of liberation from slavery to sin and death.


120 posted on 04/09/2006 9:27:37 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Calabash

"I am most curious to see how they take to the idea that while the Greeks initially meant "Pascha" to mean "Passover", now they mean "Pascha" to mean "Pagan Easter Bunny Festival", and the Greek Church has lost all memory of "Passover", despite still calling the feast you insist on naming "Easter" for "Pagan Easter Bunny Egg Worship Day" as "Pascha" meaning "Passover"."

Nope, we still mean Pascha as Pascha and we don't celebrate "Easter", especially with bunnies. But we do have red eggs which we crack with each other. The red symbolizes the blood of Christ, the egg shell the tomb and the breaking of the shell, the Resurrection.


121 posted on 04/09/2006 9:34:53 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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