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Polycrates Of Ephesus
Ante-Nicene · to AD 325
5 passages across 3 books of the Bible · Who was this?
On 1 Corinthians
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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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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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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.