Beginning and first
For since he has never built, when he builds, then he builds for the first time. He has not built another house before this one. Yet even if this house he is building is first, it has, along with being first, a beginning as well — so that the beginning is taken of the foundation, while the first it has because he is building this for the first time.
Greek
Ἐπεὶ γὰρ οὐδέποτε ᾠκ[οδό]μησεν, ὅτε οἰκοδομε[ῖ, τό]τε πρώτως οἰκοδομεῖ[· ἄλ]λην γὰρ πρὸ ταύτης οἰκία[ν ο]ὐκ ᾠκοδόμησεν. Ἔχει μέν[τ]οι, εἰ καὶ πρώτη ἐστὶν αὕ[τη], ἣν οἰκοδομεῖ οἰκίαν, μ[ετὰ] τοῦ π[ρ]ώτην αὐτὴν ε[ἶναι] κ[αὶ] ἀρχὴν {ἔχει}, ἵνα ἡ μὲν [ἀρχ]ὴ [ἐπὶ] τοῦ θεμελίου λαμβ[άνηται, τὸ] δὲ πρῶ[τ]ον ἔ[χει ὅτι ταύτη]ν πρώτως ο[ἰκοδομεῖ.]
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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