Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Exodus 12:18
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 6, page 148, footnote 1 (Image)
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Accordingly, it is not the case, as certain calculators of Gaul allege, that this assertion is opposed by that passage in Exodus,[Exodus 12:18-19] where we read: “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the first month, at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one-and-twentieth day of the month at even. Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses.” From this they maintain that it is quite permissible to celebrate the Passover on the twenty-first day of the moon; understanding that if the twenty-second day were added, there would be found eight days ...