pasch

See also: Pasch

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pascha. Perhaps also influenced by Old Norse páskar and its derivatives.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæsk/

Noun

pasch

1. (theology or archaic) The feast of Passover or (specifically) the Paschal Lamb, or (for Christians), Easter, seen as the fulfillment of Passover.
   • 1749, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  […] Newly reviſed, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures (Douay–Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision), Matthew 26:17–18:

     And on the first day of the Azymes, the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the pasch? But Jesus said: Go ye into the city to a certain man, and say to him: the master saith, My time is near at hand, with thee I make the pasch with my disciples.

   • 1749, The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  […] Newly reviſed, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures (Douay–Rheims Bible, Challoner Revision), Luke 22:1:

     NOW the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the pasch, was at hand.

   • 1843, Thomas SMYTH (D.D., of Charleston, S.C.), Presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity ... Also, the Antiquity of Presbytery; including an account of the ancient Culdees, and of St. Patrick, etc, page 372:

     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. […] ’

   • 1898, A. J. Maas, The Gospel According to Saint-Matthew: With an Explanatory and Critical Commentary, page 262:

     That the pasch must be taken in its usual sense of paschal lamb is clear from the words of the evangelists […] . The foregoing writers impugned the Judaizing Quartodecimans, […] the very existence of their adversaries attests an ancient tradition in the church that Jesus had eaten the pasch on the fourteenth day of Nisan. This error on the part of the orthodox champions must have arisen from the principle that Jesus is our true pasch, stated by St. Paul […] .

   • 1925, Catholic University of America, Patristic Studies, page 77:

     For this reason the Hundred and Fourteenth Psalm is written, because it is the recompense of love; whence the pasch of the Lord received its manner of celebration at the fourteenth moon; since, he who celebrates the pasch ought to be perfect; […]

   • 1989 [c. 226–229 CE], Origen, translated by Ronald E. Heine, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Catholic University of America Press, translation of original in Ancient Greek, →ISBN, page 271:

     […] after a few words in which the pasch has not as yet been mentioned by name, he adds, “And thus shall you eat it: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staffs in your hands; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the pasch of the Lord.”

2. (theology or archaic) The Paschal Mystery; the death and resurrection of Jesus.
   • 1884, Jean Gaume, The Catechism of Perseverance; Or, An Historical, Dogmatical, Moral, Liturgical, Apologetical, Philosophical, and Social Exposition of Religion: From the Beginning of the World Down to Our Own Days, page 381:

     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.

   • 1999, Anscar J. Chupungco, Handbook for Liturgical Studies: The Eucharist, Liturgical Press, →ISBN, page 330:

     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  […]

   • 2007 10, Matthew Levering, Ezra & Nehemiah, Brazos Press, →ISBN, page 212:

     Rather, an ecclesiology nourished in the book of Nehemiah continually returns to Christ's pasch, to the people of God's dependence upon divine mercy in Christ.

   • 2013, F. X. Durrwell, In the Redeeming Christ, Ave Maria Press, →ISBN, page 114:

     They were alone with the Messiah of Israel and made up his paschal group, the “passahhaburah”; they were the companions of his pasch, “the Twelve,” the nucleus of the Israel of the future, that “remnant” of Israel  […]

   • 2015, Jon Sobrino, Christ the Liberator: A View from the Victims, Orbis Books, →ISBN:

     (2) Jesus' pasch, his death and resurrection (from which there is no reason to exclude his life), is gospel, to which we respond substantially in orthodoxy;  […]

Romansch

Alternative forms

• pêsch (Puter)

Etymology

From Latin pācem, accusative singular of pāx.

Noun

pasch f

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) peace
2. (Sutsilvan) quiet, stillness

Derived terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) paschaivel
• (Sursilvan) pascheivel
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) paschevel