Keep it until the fourteenth
And as there the sheep is not sacrificed at the same time as it is taken on the tenth, but on the fourteenth, five days having passed, so here too the one who has taken the true sheep, that is Christ, does not at once sacrifice and chew, but five days having passed after the taking of him (Exodus 12:3–6).
Greek
Καὶ ὡς ἐκεῖ οὐχ ἅμα τῷ λαβεῖν τῇ δεκάτῃ τὸ πρόβατον θύεται ἀλλὰ τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ, πέντε ἡμερῶν διαγενομένων, καὶ ἐνθάδε|| [ὁ τὸ ἀληθινὸν πρόβατον λαβών, τοῦτ' ἔστιν X(ριστό)ν, οὐκ εὐθέως θύει καὶ τρώγει, ἀλλ' ἡμερῶν πέντε διαγενομένων μετὰ τὴν λῆψιν 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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