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Melito of Sardis — on Eph 4:8-9 (New Fragment #3:4-5, lines 24-36, as quoted by Stuart George Hall in 'Melito of Sardis: On Pascha and Fragments' (2012 revised edition), pp. 62-96)

Patristic A.D. 180

Melito of Sardis · c. A.D. 100–180

“By the cross death is destroyed, and by the cross salvation shines; by the cross the gates of hell are burst, and by the cross the gates of paradise are opened... the cross is the destroyer of hell.”

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Melito of Sardis — on Eph 4:8-9 (New Fragment #3:4-5, lines 24-36, as quoted by Stuart George Hall in 'Melito of Sardis: On Pascha and Fragments' (2012 revised edition), pp. 62-96)

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