Polycrates Of Ephesus

Ante-Nicene · to AD 325

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On 1 Corinthians

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  1. 1 Corinthians 1:7
    It is surely noteworthy that nobody doubted that it was kept by a Christian and Apostolic ordinance. So St. Paul argues from its Christian observance, in his rebuke of the Corinthians.

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  2. 1 Corinthians 16:2
    Those who in our own times have revived the observance of the Jewish Sabbath, show us how much may be said on their side,

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  3. 1 Corinthians 16:8
    They were keeping it "unleavened "ceremonially, and he urges a spiritual unleavening as more important. The Christian hallowing of Pentecost connects with the Paschal argument.

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