Beginning and first
This distinction of the first and the beginning Jacob too, when he had become Israel, used when blessing Reuben: "Reuben, my firstborn and my strength and beginning of my children." (Genesis 49:3) For he knows both that he is firstborn and that he is beginning of his children.
Greek
Ταύτην τὴν διαίρεσιν τοῦ πρώτου καὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ Ἰακὼβ ὁ Ἰ(σρα)ὴλ γενόμενος εὐλογῶν τὸν Ῥουβὴν ἔλεγεν οὕτως· "Ῥουβὴν πρωτότοκός μου καὶ ἰσχύς μου καὶ ἀρχὴ τέκνων μου"· οἶδεν γὰρ|| καὶ πρωτότοκον αὐτὸν ὄντα καὶ ἀρχὴν τέκνων αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχοντα.
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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