325 ⟶ First Council of Nicaea and Separation of Easter from Passover

First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. The Christian Church sep...
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✝️ Earliest Known Accusation of Jewish Deicide

Earliest known accusation of Jewish deicide (the notion that Jews were held Responsible for the death of Jesus), made in a sermon On the Passover, attributed to Melito of Sardis.⟶
Earliest Known Accusation of Jewish Deicide (167)
Early ChristianityDeicideReligious AccusationMelito of SardisAnti-SemitismTheologyPassover
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🗓️ First Council of Nicaea and Separation of Easter from Passover

First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. The Christian Church separates the calculation of the date of Easter from the Jewish Passover: "It was ... declared improper to follow the custom of the Jews in the celebration of this holy festival, because, their hands having been stained with crime, the minds of these wretched men are necessarily blinded.... Let us, then, have nothing in common with the Jews, who are our adversaries. ... avoiding all contact with that evil way. ... who, after having compassed the death of the Lord, being out of their minds, are guided not by sound reason, but by an unrestrained passion, wherever their innate madness carries them. ... a people so utterly depraved. ... Therefore, this irregularity must be corrected, in order that we may no more have any thing in common with those parricides and the murderers of our Lord. ... no single point in common with the perjury of the Jews."⟶
First Council of Nicaea and Separation of Easter from Passover (325)
Early ChristianityCouncil of NicaeaEasterPassoverReligious SeparationAnti-JudaismTheologyDeicide
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