What the Passover means for Christians
That even to this day the Passover still takes place, and the sheep is sacrificed, and the people come out from Egypt — the apostle also teaches us, saying: "For our Passover also has been sacrificed, Christ; so let us keep the feast not with old leaven nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth." (1 Corinthians 5:7–8)
Greek
Ὅτι δὲ καὶ μέχρι σήμερον [κ]αὶ τὸ πάσχα γίνεται καὶ τ[ὸ] πρόβατον θύεται καὶ ὁ λαὸς [ἐξ] Αἰγύπτου ἐξέρχεται, κα[ὶ ὁ ἀ]πόστολος ἡμᾶς διδάσκε[ι λέ]γων· "Καὶ γὰρ τὸ πάσχα ἡμ[ῶν] ἐτύθη X(ριστό)ς, ὥστε ἑορτάζω[με]ν μ[ὴ ζύ]μῃ παλαιᾷ μηδὲ ζ[ύμῃ] κα[κί]ας καὶ πονηρία[ς ἀλλὰ ἀζύ]μοις εἰλικριν[είας καὶ ἀληθε]ίας".
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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