Blood on the houses
lacuna which we sacrifice, and we anoint our houses with blood — I mean our body. That anointing is the faith in him, through which we believe that the destroyer's power is being abolished (Exodus 12:7) (Exodus 12:23) (Hebrews 2:14).
Greek
[ ... ὃ θύομεν, καὶ χρίομεν τοὺς οἴκ]ους ἡμ[ῶν αἵματι, λέγω δὴ τὸ σῶμ]α ἡμῶν, [ἥπερ] χρῖσ[ις ἡ πίστι]ς ἐστὶν [ἡ εἰς] αὐτόν, [δι' ἧς πι]στεύο[μ]εν τὴν τ[οῦ ὀλε]θρ[ε]υτοῦ δύναμιν κα[ταρ]γου[μ]ένην.
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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