Burn what remains
And very few indeed are those who have senses trained for the discernment of both good and evil and who partake of solid food — who will also be able to leave none of the meats until morning, as he says: perhaps one out of a thousand and two out of a myriad, of whom the blessed apostles also were (Hebrews 5:14) (Ecclesiastes 7:28) (Deuteronomy 32:30).
Greek
Ὀλίγοι δὲ παντελῶς [εἰσιν] ο[ἱ] τὰ αἰσθητήρια γεγυ[μνασ]μένα ἔχοντες πρὸς διά[κρι]σιν καλοῦ τε καὶ κακοῦ καὶ [στε]ρᾶς μεταλαμβάνοντες [τρο]φῆς, οἳ καὶ δυνήσονται [μηδ]ὲν καταλιπεῖν τῶν κρε[ῶν ἕ]ως πρωΐ, ὡς λέγει, εἴ<ς> που [ἐκ] χιλίων καὶ δύο ἐκ μυρίων, [ὧν] καὶ οἱ μ[α]κάριοι ἀπόστολοι [ὑπ]ῆρχον.
About this text
Origen on the Passover: what the feast means, and how Christians should keep it.
English follows the Greek as printed in Witte (1993), from the page images. OCR of those pages was checked. Damaged lines are marked as gaps, not filled from another edition. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Witte, Die Schrift des Origenes „Über das Passa“ (1993) (Greek · On Pascha, from the page images)
- Checked print OCR of the Witte page images (Greek · Same print)
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