Beginning and first
How then shall we find a path, and come to grasp whether "beginning" and "first" were said in the same sense, or were used of one thing and another — unless we are guided by the like things that lie in the Scriptures?
Greek
Πῶς οὖν εἰς ὁδὸν ἔλθωμεν τοῦ|| ἐπιβῆναι καὶ εἰς κατάληψιν ἐλθεῖν πότερον καταλλήλως ἡ ἀρχὴ καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἐρρέθη ἢ ὡς ἐφ' [ἑ]τέρου καὶ <ἑτέρου> ἐχρήσθη, εἰ μὴ [ἀπὸ] τῶν ὁμοίων ἐν ταῖς γρ[αφαῖ]ς κειμένων ὁδηγηθ[εῖμ]εν.
About this text
Origen on the Passover. Damaged lines are marked as gaps, not filled in.
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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