The precise clarification of the day of Passover

An epistle to Eusebius, Marcellus, Vivian, and Carpus, and to the Egyptians, from our holy father Epiphanius, bishop of Constantia of the island of Cyprus, concerning the precise clarification of the day of Passover, from the epistle to Eusebius and Marcellus, Vivian, and Carpus.

Therefore the Jews ate the Passover, with which the Lord ate this, two days before the appointed true Passover; as the scribes and the Pharisees said, that they might perform the Passover beforehand, so that they might not be unable to eat the Passover when the uproar is seized. As also the most holy Matthew says concerning the Savior that he said to the disciples: 'You know that in two days the Passover occurs and the Son of Man is handed over to be crucified.' This was precisely fulfilled, for Christ entered into the mystery on the second of the Sabbath, the tenth day of the name of our Lord Jesus, which was a symbol because of the iota. For then Judas took the price of the honored one, for whom they valued him from the sons of Israel according to what is written, and he sought an opportunity to hand him over. And they performed it beforehand, being in an uproar instead of guarding with themselves the lamb purchased for them through the silver given to Judas, from the tenth counted until the fourteenth, which was the fifth of the Sabbaths. And they perform it beforehand, being in an uproar because of the people and saying: 'Let us perform the Passover beforehand, so that when the people comes we might not be unable to seize him.' And because of this, they no longer ate the Passover on the fifth, which descended to the eleventh of the moon, but on the...