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The Homily of Melito On the Passion

The Homily of Melito On the Passion THE HOMILY OF MELITO ON THE PASSION BY A. WIFSTRAND In 1940 professor Campbell Bonner published a very good edition of the homily on the Passion, which he had showed, four years earlier, to be a work of Melito, bishop of Sardis. This publication has given us an opportunity of studying more thoroughly the early development of Christian preaching. For a long time we have had an early Christian sermon in the so-called second letter of Clement, but this homily of Melito is written in quite another sort of style, which resembles more the eloquence of Hippolytus in the third century with its numerous rhetorical devices. Especially there is in Melito an abundant use of the isocolon with anaphora and homoeo- teleuton, often of an antithetic nature; on the other hand, the com- plicated period structures, which are a mark of other sorts of.Greek oratory, are seldom to be found in this text. There are also some passages of an "hymnodic" character, sequences of sentences beginning with ov'rog ó... or Eyw tlfu 6 ..., such as are regarded (since Norden's treatment of them in "Ag- nostos Theos") as oriental, unhellenic modes of expression. These as well as the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vigiliae Christianae Brill

The Homily of Melito On the Passion

Wifstrand, A.
Vigiliae Christianae , Volume 2 (1): 201 – Jan 1, 1948
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© 1948 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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THE HOMILY OF MELITO ON THE PASSION BY A. WIFSTRAND In 1940 professor Campbell Bonner published a very good edition of the homily on the Passion, which he had showed, four years earlier, to be a work of Melito, bishop of Sardis. This publication has given us an opportunity of studying more thoroughly the early development of Christian preaching. For a long time we have had an early Christian sermon in the so-called second letter of Clement, but this homily of Melito is written in quite another sort of style, which resembles more the eloquence of Hippolytus in the third century with its numerous rhetorical devices. Especially there is in Melito an abundant use of the isocolon with anaphora and homoeo- teleuton, often of an antithetic nature; on the other hand, the com- plicated period structures, which are a mark of other sorts of.Greek oratory, are seldom to be found in this text. There are also some passages of an "hymnodic" character, sequences of sentences beginning with ov'rog ó... or Eyw tlfu 6 ..., such as are regarded (since Norden's treatment of them in "Ag- nostos Theos") as oriental, unhellenic modes of expression. These as well as the

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