Melito the Bishop

Melito of Asia, bishop of Sardis, addressed a book on behalf of Christian teaching to the emperor Marcus Antoninus Verus, a disciple of Fronto the orator. He also wrote other works, among them the following: two books On the Passover; one book On the Lives of the Prophets; one book On the Church; one book On the Lord’s Day; one book On Faith; one book On the Psalms; one On the Senses; one On the Soul and Body; one On Baptism; one On Truth; one On the Generation of Christ; On His Prophecy; one On Hospitality, and another which is called the Key; one On the Devil; one On the Apocalypse of John; one On the Corporeality of God; and six books of Eclogues. Of his fine oratorical genius Tertullian, in the seven books he wrote against the church on behalf of Montanus, says mockingly that he was considered a prophet by many of us. [a]