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Melito of Sardis

Man and God

For he was born a son,

and led as a lamb,

and slaughtered as a sheep,

and buried as a man,

and rose from the dead as God,

being God by his nature and a man.

On Pascha

p. 52

Melito of Sardis, On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (trans. Alistair C. Stewart; New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2017)