Beginning and first
Therefore also when he comes into his world John does not say: "the Word was first," (John 1:1) but "in the beginning was the Word."
Greek
[διὸ κ]αὶ εἰς κό[σ]μον αὐτοῦ γινομέν[ου Ἰ]ωάννης οὐ λέγε[ι]· "πρῶτος [ἦν ὁ λ]όγος", ἀλλὰ "ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦ[ν ὁ] λόγος".
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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