Pasch
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpæsk/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pasch is a noun meaning (theology or archaic) The Paschal Mystery; the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Meaning
(theology or archaic) The Paschal Mystery; the death and resurrection of Jesus.
More Meanings
- (theology or archaic) The feast of Passover or (specifically) the Paschal Lamb, or (for Christians), Easter, seen as the fulfillment of Passover.
Example Sentences
NOW the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.
The Man-God had scarcely returned to His Father when the Apostles hastened to establish a solemn festival to commemorate His pasch, that is to say, His glorious passage from death to life.
Victor, bishop of Rome, A. D. 192, thus writes: ‘[…] (we find) the catholic church celebrate ^([sic]) pasch, not on the fourteenth of the moon, with the Jews, but from the fifteenth day to the twenty-first. […]’
The immediate future of his pasch is his saving death, through which humanity is reconciled. The long-term, eschatological future is found in the promise of his resurrection and embraces the whole future of the life of the Church […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include easter, passover, chametz, seder, haroseth, pace.
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