Beginning and first
And so that we may understand more clearly, we shall take another thing. If several logs should lie near one another, we shall find the beginning in all of them — for each log, even to the last, has its own beginning — but only the one lying first has the first. And the first, being first according to position, has also its own beginning. Those that follow, having fallen out of the first, each have their own beginning.
Greek
Καὶ [ἵν]α σαφ[έστερον σ]υνῶμε[ν], [ἕτ]ερόν [τι λη]ψ[ό]μεθα· εἰ ξύλα [πλεί]ονα κέοιτο πλησίον ἀλ[λήλω]ν, ἐπὶ μὲν πάντων τὴ[ν] ἀρχὴν εὑρήσομεν – ἔχει γὰρ ἕκαστον ξύλον μέχρι καὶ τοῦ τελευταίου ἀρχὴν ἰδίαν –, ἓν δὲ μόνον τὸ πρῶτον κείμενον ἔχει τὸ πρῶτον. Καὶ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον κατὰ τὴν θέσιν πρῶτον ὂν ἔχει|| καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ἀρχήν, τὰ δὲ ἑξῆς ἐκπεσόντα τοῦ πρώτου ἔχει ἕκαστον ἀρχὴν τὴν αὐτοῦ.
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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