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  • It is mentioned as part of the canon in Melito's catalogue [Eusebius, Ecclesiastical

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • When the rest were thrown into a wagon to be carried to the pile, the youngest of them (whom the acts call Melito) was found alive; and the executioners, hoping he would change his resolution when he came to himself, left him behind.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • The author of _Supernatural Religion_ speaks of it as 'Melito's work on the Passion' (ii.p. 180).

    Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion" Joseph Barber Lightfoot 1858

  • For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those who have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God! Later Christians, such as Melito, the second-century bishop of Sardis, took these ideas even further, arguing that the sacrifices made by the Jews had merely been a symbol of what was to come in the person of Christ.

    The Betrayer's Gospel Iricinschi, Eduard 2006

  • Already in the middle of the second century, Saint Melito of Sardis (in the first surviving Easter homily) says that the Sacrifice of Isaac is a prophecy of the Death of Christ.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.1 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the New Fire, Procession, Exultet, Prophecies 2009

  • The company was involved in another fatal mishap in September when a Transel employee, Robert Melito, fell down an elevator shaft and died while working at a building on West 38th Street.

    Elevator Work Under Review Sean Gardiner 2011

  • Vnto this famous expedition and presupposed victorie, many potentates, princes, and honourable personages hied themselues: out of Spaine the prince of Melito called the duke of Pastrana and taken to be the sonne of one Ruygomes de Silua, but in very deed accompted among the number of king Philips base sonnes.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • According to Count Miot de Melito, a henchman of Joseph the later King of Spain, the Emperors also agreed in the second article that “The Bourbon dynasty in Spain and the House of Braganza in Portugal, shall cease to reign; a prince of the Bonaparte family to succeed to each throne.”

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • According to Count Miot de Melito, a henchman of Joseph the later King of Spain, the Emperors also agreed in the second article that “The Bourbon dynasty in Spain and the House of Braganza in Portugal, shall cease to reign; a prince of the Bonaparte family to succeed to each throne.”

    THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966

  • Lantrey (tome i.p. 411) remarks that the existence and receipt of the letter from Joseph denied by Bourrienne is proved by Miot (the commissary, the brother of Miot de Melito) and by Joseph himself.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

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