Definition of "pasch"

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), Matthew 26:17–18

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

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

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. […] ’

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

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 […] .

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

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; […]

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

[…] 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.”

1989 , Origen, translated by Ronald E. Heine, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Catholic University of America Press, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 271

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.

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 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 […]

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

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.

2007 10, Matthew Levering, Ezra & Nehemiah, Brazos Press, page 212

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 […]

2013, F. X. Durrwell, In the Redeeming Christ, Ave Maria Press, page 114

(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; […]

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