Beginning and first
And so that we may be led more fully to see what is being said, we shall take an example that will guide us to the thought. If some builder who has never built a house should come to building, we shall find in this house both the first and the beginning.
Greek
Καὶ ἵνα μᾶλλον ἐπαχθῶμεν ἰδεῖν τὸ λεγόμενον, παράδειγμα τι ληψόμεθα, ὃ ὁδηγήσει ἐπὶ τὸ νοούμενον ἡμᾶς· εἰ οἰκοδόμος τις μη||δέποτε οἰκοδομήσας οἰκίαν ἐπὶ τὸ οἰκοδομεῖν ἔλθοι, ἐπὶ ταύτης τῆς οἰκίας καὶ τὸ πρῶτον [κ]αὶ τὴν ἀρχὴν εὑρήσομ[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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