Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VI/Anatolius and Minor Writers/Anatolius of Alexandria/The Paschal Canon of Anatolius of Alexandria/Chapter IX

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But what wonder is it that they should have erred in the matter of the 21st day of the moon who have added three days before the equinox, in which they hold that the Passover may be celebrated? An assertion which certainly must be considered altogether absurd, since, by the best-known historiographers of the Jews, and by the Seventy Elders, it has been clearly determined that the Paschal festival cannot be celebrated at the equinox.