For you
For if he had added: "Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying: This month is for you the beginning of months," (Exodus 12:2–3) he would have been saying this without distinction both to Moses and Aaron and to the whole people. But it is said to Moses and Aaron: "This month is for you the beginning of months; it is first for you among the months of the year." And he is commanded to speak not this, but that on the tenth of the month they should take a sheep according to the houses of the fathers.
Greek
[Εἰ μ]ὲν γ[ὰρ ἐπενη]νόχει· "Λάλη[σον] πρὸ[ς πᾶσαν συ]ναγωγ[ὴν υἱ]ῶν Ἰ(σρα)ὴ[λ λέγων·] Ὁ μὴν οὗ[τος] ὑμῖ[ν ἀρ]χὴ μηνῶν", ἀπ[ο]λελυμέ[νως] καὶ πρὸς Μωϋσῆν κα[ὶ Ἀαρ]ὼν καὶ πρὸς ὅλο[ν] τὸν λαὸ[ν] ἦν τοῦτο λέγων, ἐπεὶ δὲ τῷ Μωϋσῇ καὶ Ἀαρὼν λέγεται· "Ὁ μὴν οὗτος ὑμῖν ἀρχὴ μηνῶν, πρῶτός ἐστιν ὑμῖν ἐν τοῖς μησὶν τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ", κελεύεται δὲ αὐτῷ λαλῆσαι <οὐ> τοῦτο, ἀλλὰ τῇ δεκάτῃ|| τοῦ μηνὸς ἵνα λάβωσιν πρόβατον κατ' οἴκους πατριῶν,
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.
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- 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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