Keep it until the fourteenth
[...] and having observed often [...] the eighth psalm was inscribed over the winepresses. And when the temple is built, a certain number is given of the burden-bearers and stonecutters working in it: "seventy thousand bearing a burden and eighty thousand stonecutters." (1 Kings 5:15) [...] (Psalm 8:1) (Psalm 81:1) (2 Chronicles 2:2) (2 Chronicles 2:18).
Greek
... αγειν ... μενοι ... ικη κα[ ... ἁρ]μονίως [ ... κ]αὶ πολ[λάκις παρ]ατ[η]ρή[σ]αντες ... ἀτιθεμένοις δὲ ... μέν· ὁ ὄγδοος [ψαλμὸς ὑπ]ὲρ τῶν ληνῶν [ἐπεγρά]φη· ὁπηνίκα [δὲ κα]ὶ ὁ ναὸς οἰκοδομεῖται, [ἀριθ]μός τις εἴρηται τῶν νω[τοφό]ρων καὶ λατόμων ἐργα[ζομέ]νων ἐν αὐτῷ "ἑβδομή||κοντα χιλιάδες αἴροντες ἄρσιν καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα χιλιάδες λατόμων".] ...
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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