Keep it until the fourteenth
[...] we have come out. And accordingly there are also other things showing that the Passover has been legislated to be sacrificed in the first month on the fourteenth of the month in the midst of the evenings, when the light of the moon has become full and perfect (Exodus 12:6).
Greek
[ ... ἐξελη]λύθα[μεν. Ἀκολούθως δὲ] καὶ ἕτε[ρά τινα δεικνύντα] ἐστὶν [ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ μηνὶ ἐν] τῇ τεσ[σαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ] μηνὸ[ς ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ἑσπε]ρινῶ[ν] ν[ενομοθετῆσθαι θύ]εσθαι τὸ πάσχ[α, πλήρους καὶ τελείου τοῦ φ[ωτὸς τῆς σε]λήνης γενομ[ένου.
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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