Purge out therefore the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
For in what respect, he says, would the one tittle require any substance such as leaven (derived) from without for the Lord's Passover, the eternal feast, which is given for generation upon generation?.
In other respects, however, these consent to all the traditions delivered to the Church by the Apostles.
To have remodelled the old man.
In the Passover season, so as to exhibit Himself as one destined to be sacrificed like a sheep, and to prove Himself the true Paschal-lamb, even as the apostle says, "Even Christ "who is God, "our passover was sacrificed for us."
