Loins girded
Perhaps for this reason John the Baptist too, since he was perfect, had a leather belt around his loin — it being shown that he had put to death there all his seed-motion. The leather shows deadness: deadness had filled his whole nature (Matthew 3:4) (Mark 1:6) (Colossians 3:5).
Greek
Τούτῳ τάχα τῷ λόγῳ καὶ Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστής, ἐπεὶ τέλ[ει]ιος ἦν, εἶχεν ζώνην δερματίνην περὶ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ, δηλουμένου ὅτι νενέκρωκεν ἐκεῖ πᾶσαν τὴν κίνησιν αὐτοῦ τὴν σπερματικήν, τοῦ δέρματος νεκρότητα δηλοῦντος ὅτι ἡ νεκρότης ὅλην αὐτοῦ περιέ[π]λησεν τὴν φύσιν.
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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