The head with the feet and the inwards
And those who chew the inwards, laboring at it, these will also see the depths of God — for the inwards have a kind of intricate folding and effect the whole life of the body. Such also is the one being initiated in mysteries. Or rather, the Word of the incarnation, hidden and as it were in the middle — if we should take the head as the godhead (1 Corinthians 2:10).
Greek
οἱ δὲ τὰ ἐντοσθίδια τρώγοντες φιλοπονοῦντες οὗτοι ὄψονται καὶ τὰ βάθη τοῦ θ(εο)ῦ – τὰ γὰρ ἐντοσθίδια συνείλησίν τινα ἔχει πεποικιλμένην καὶ τὴν ὅλην ζῶωσιν τῷ σώματι ἐργάζεται· τοιοῦτος καὶ ὁ ἐν μυστηρίοις μυούμενος – ἤγουν τὸν ἀποκεκρυμμένον καὶ οἷον εἰς μέσον τὸν τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως λόγον, εἴ γε κεφαλὴν τὴν θεότητα λάβοιμεν·
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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