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But since Christ came not to abolish the law or the prophets but to fulfill them, he showed us what the true Passover is, the true crossing from Egypt (Matthew 5:17).
Greek
ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὁ X(ριστὸ)ς ἦλθεν [οὐ κ]αταλῦσαι τὸν νό[μον] ἢ τ[οὺς] προφήτας ἀλλὰ [πλ]ηρ[ῶσαι, ἔ]δειξεν ἡμῖν τί [τὸ ἀληθινὸν] πάσ[χα, ἡ διάβασις] ἡ ἀληθινὴ ἡ [ἐξ Αἰγύπτου,]
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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