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Were Assemblies in Asia Still Observing Pasakh on the Fourteenth Day Long Before Constantine?

Period: 2nd century CE ยท Witness: Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 5.23

What the ancient record says

Yes. Eusebius describes a major dispute over the Pasakh date; the assemblies throughout Asia followed an older tradition, the fourteenth day of the moon, corresponding to the Pasakh date in the earlier instructions; they claimed inherited precedent, not a random date.

Not every assembly agreed (hence the controversy), others followed a practice connected with the first day of the week; by the late 2nd century different patterns existed, disproving any claim that everyone always observed the same later Pasakh system. Predates Constantine (4th century) / Nicaea 325 CE by well over a century.

Development: older fourteenth-day observance, then other assemblies differ, then conflict, then Rome attempts conformity, then centuries later imperial power enters, very different from "everybody celebrated the same until Constantine changed it."

Read it for yourself. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 5.23 (into 5.24).

Evidence strength: Very strong. Supported: Asia observed the fourteenth day; claimed older inherited tradition; others differed. Not proven by this passage alone: exactly how early every component originated.

Question answered: Were followers of Yahusha still observing a fourteenth-day Pasakh in the 2nd century? Yes.
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