Keep it until the fourteenth
as John too: "What was," he says, "from the beginning, what we have heard and seen with our eyes and our hands have handled concerning the word of life" (1 John 1:1) — then we shall also be able to sacrifice the sheep and eat and so come out of Egypt [...].
Greek
[ὡς κ]αὶ ὁ Ἰω[άν]νης· "Ὃ ἦν" γάρ φ[ησι]ν "ἀπ' ἀρχῆς, ὃ ἀκηκόαμεν κ[αὶ ἑ]ωράκαμεν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς ἡμῶν κ(αὶ) αἱ χεῖρες ἡμῶν ἐψηλάφησαν περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς", τότε καὶ θῦσαι τὸ πρόβατον δυνησόμεθα καὶ φαγεῖν|| [καὶ οὕτω τὴν Αἴγυπτον ἐξελθεῖν] ...
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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