A staff in the hand
For the one who spares his staff hates his own son, but the one who loves disciplines carefully — we have read in Proverbs (Proverbs 13:24).
Greek
ὁ φειδόμενος γὰρ τῆς βακτηρίας αὐτοῦ μισ[εῖ τ]ὸν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν, ὁ δὲ ἀγαπ[ῶ]ν ἐπιμελῶς παιδεύει, ἐν τοῖς Παρ[οιμ]ίαις ἀνέγνωμεν.
Ὠ(ριγένους) [πε]ρὶ πάσχα ᾱ
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. 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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