From the lambs and the goats
And since such people are more, the barley loaves are seven, since this is also the full number and the number of idleness — according to which number the greatest crowd, the one that has idle hands and does not work while it is day, also lives (John 9:4) (Matthew 20:6).
Greek
Καὶ επεὶ πλείους οἱ τοιοῦτοι, ἑπτὰ οἱ κρίθινοι τυγχάνουσιν ἄρτοι, ἐπεὶ καὶ ὁ πλήρης ἀριθμὸς οὗτος καὶ ὁ τῆς ἀργίας, καθ' ὃν ἀριθμὸν καὶ ὁ πλεῖστος ὄχλος ὁ χεῖρας ἔχων ἀργὰς καὶ μὴ ἐργαζόμενος ἕως ἡμέρα ἐστίν ἀναστρέφεται·
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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