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MELITO
, See also:bishop of See also:Sardis, a See also:Christian writer of the and See also:century, mentioned by See also:Eusebius (Hist
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Eccl. iv
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21) along with See also:Hegesippus, See also:Dionysius of See also:Corinth, See also:Apollinaris of See also:Hierapolis, See also:Irenaeus, and others, his contemporaries, as a See also:champion of orthodoxy and upholder of apostolic tradition
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Of his See also:personal See also:history nothing is known, and of his numerous See also:works (which are enumerated—with quotations—by Eusebius) only a few fragments are extant
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They included an Apologia addressed to
See also:Antoninus some See also:time between A.D
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169 and 18o, two books See also:relating to the See also:paschal controversy, and a See also:work entitled 'EKaoyaf (selections from the Old Testament), which contained the first Christian See also:list of " the books of the Old See also:Covenant." It excludes See also:Esther, See also:Nehemiah and the Apocrypha
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The fragments have been edited with valuable notes by See also:Routh (Reliquiae sacrae, vol. i., 1814)
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These are sufficient to show that Melito was an important, figure in See also:Asia See also:Minor and took much See also:part in the paschal, Marcionite and Montanist controversies
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It seems more than doubtful whether the Apologia of Melito " the Philosopher," discovered in a See also:Syriac See also:translation by See also: See also:Harnack, Texte und Untersuchungen,'i . 240–278 (See also:Leipzig, 1882); Erwin Preuschen, s.v . " Melito " in See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencykloplidie, xii., 1903, giving full list of works and bibliography . |
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