On Pascha · §1.79

Roast with fire, not raw, not boiled

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And if the Spirit is given us from God, and God is a consuming fire, the Spirit itself is also fire — which the apostle, knowing, exhorts us to be boiling in the Spirit (Deuteronomy 4:24) (Hebrews 12:29) (Romans 12:11) (Acts 2:3–4).

Greek

Εἰ δὲ τὸ [πν(εῦμ)α ἀπὸ] τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ [δίδο]ται ἡμῖ[ν, ὁ δὲ θ(εὸ)ς] πῦρ κα[τα]να[λ]ί[σκ]ον ἐ[στί]ν, καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ πν(εῦμ)α πῦ[ρ] ἐστιν, ὅπερ ὁ ἀπόστολος ἐπιστάμενος προτρέπεται ἡμᾶς τῷ πν(εύματ)ι ζέοντας.

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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