From the lambs and the goats
And perhaps the gospel too knows the same difference, when the Savior feeds those who follow him not from like loaves but from different ones. For some of them he breaks five of wheat, and for others seven of barley — so that those who cannot partake of Christ as of a purer wheat loaf, because they still live in a beastlike way and not yet rationally, may partake as of barley (Matthew 14:17–19) (Matthew 15:34–36) (John 6:9).
Greek
Τάχα δὲ καὶ τὸ εὐαγ[γέ]λιον τὴν αὐτὴν διαφορὰν οἶδεν, ὅταν ὁ σ(ωτ)ὴρ τοὺς ἀκολουθοῦντας αὐτῷ χορτάζῃ οὐκ ἐξ ἄρτων ὁμοίων ἀλλὰ διαφόρων· τοῖς μὲν γὰρ αὐτῶν σιτίνους κατακλᾷ πέντε, τοῖς δὲ κριθίνους ἑπτά, ἵνα ὅσοι οὐ δύ||νανται ὡς ἄρτου καθαρωτέρου καὶ σιτίνου μεταλαβεῖν τοῦ X(ριστο)ῦ διὰ τὸ κτηνῶδες καὶ μήπω λογικῶς ἀναστρέφεσθαι μεταλάβωσιν ὡς κριθίνου.
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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