How the Hebrews keep the Passover
So the Hebrews keep Passover: from the tenth they must take the sheep by houses and by families, and still feed them the eleventh and twelfth and thirteenth, and name them, saying: "This sheep is sacrificed for this one and that one" (Exodus 12:3–6) — their names not exceeding eighteen — and on the fourteenth it is sacrificed in the midst of the evenings. So from the taking of the sheep until the sacrificing there are five days. And this used to take place according to the sensible.
Greek
καὶ] οὕτω[ς Ἑβραῖοι ποιοῦσι πάσχα·] ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆς δεκά-της δεῖ [τὸ] πρόβ[ατον λαβεῖν κατ' οἴκο[υς καὶ κ[ατὰ πατ]ριάς, θρέψαι [δὲ αὐτοὺς] ἔ[τι] [τ]ήν τε [ἑνδεκάτη]ν κ[αὶ] δωδεκ[άτην καὶ τ]ρισκ[αι]δεκάτην [καὶ ἐπονο]μάσα[ι λέ]γοντας· "Τοῦ[το τ]ὸ πρόβ[α]τον θύεται ὑ[πὲρ τ]οῦδε καὶ τοῦδε ", οὐχ ὑπ[ερ]βαινόντων αὐτῶν ῑη ὀνόματα, καὶ τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ θύεται ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ἑσπερινῶν, ὡς εἶναι ἀπὸ τῆς λήψεως τοῦ προ||βάτου μέχρι τῆς θύσεως ἡμέρας πέντε. Καὶ τοῦτο μὲν κατὰ τὸ αἰσθητὸν ἐγίνετο.]
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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