What the Passover means for Christians
Since the people of the Hebrews then come out of Egypt, the law for this feast is given them, reasonably, household by household: each takes a male sheep, perfect and unblemished, sacrifices it, and toward evening eats it roasted with fire, neither raw nor boiled in water — so that the destroyer of the firstborn of the Egyptians may not touch them, seeing the posts of their doors anointed with the blood (Exodus 12:3–8) (Exodus 12:22–23) (Exodus 12:29).
Greek
Ἐπεὶ ὁ λαὸ[ς ὁ Ἑ]βραίων τότ[ε] ἐξ[έρ]χετ[α]ι τ[ὴν Αἴγυπτον, ὁ] νόμο[ς] ε[ἰκότως αὐ]τοῖς τα[ύτ]ης τῆς ἑορτῆς δίδοται οὕ[τ]ως κα[τ]' ο[ἴ]κους, ὅπως ἕκαστοι πρόβατο[ν] ἄρσεν τέλει[ον ἄ]μωμον λαβό[ντ]ες θύσω[σιν καὶ π]ρὸς ἑ[σ]π[έ]ραν φάγω[σι]ν ὀπτὸ]ν πυ[ρὶ] οὔτε ὠμὸν οὔ[τε ἡ]ψημένον ἐν ὕδατι ἵν' οὕ[τως] ὁ ὀλεθρεύων τὰ πρωτότ[οκα τ]ῶν Αἰγυπτίων μὴ θίγῃ αὐτῶν τὰς φλιὰς τῶν θυρῶν αὐτῶν ὁρῶν τῷ αἵματι κεχρισμένας.
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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