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Cartoon bunnies up our kiesters; yellow chicks lay chocolate eggs. Antichrist confection: Easter's pastel poison. Drain the dregs. Sweet untruths with trinkets given lying in the plastic grass. Dull consumers, market-driven. Christ is risen... kiss my ***
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Apr 16, 2017
Apr 16, 2017 at 7:27 AM UTC
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Cartoon bunnies up our kiesters; yellow chicks lay chocolate eggs. Antichrist confection: Easter's pastel poison. Drain the dregs. Sweet untruths with trinkets given lying in the plastic grass. Dull consumers, market-driven. Christ is risen... kiss my ***
Our English word Passover, happily, in sound and sense, almost corresponds to the Hebrew [pesach], of which is a translation. Exod. Xii. 27. The Greek pascha, formed from the Hebrew, is the name of the Jewish festival, applied invariably in the primitive church to designate the festival of the Lord’s resurrection, which took place at the time of the passover. Our word Easter is of Saxon origin, and of precisely the same import with its German cognate Ostern. The latter is derived from the old Teutonic form of auferstehn, Auferstehung, i. e. resurrection. The name Easter is undoubtedly preferable to pascha or passover, but the latter was the primitive name. [SOURCE: Ecclesiastical History to the Twentieth Year of the Reign of Constantine, 4th ed., trans. Christian F. Cruse (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1847), 221.]
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