Break no bone
let us search the true sheep. The apostle confesses that the sheep of our Passover is Christ, saying: "For our Passover also has been sacrificed, Christ," (1 Corinthians 5:7) whose flesh and bones and blood, as was shown before, are the divine scriptures, which if we eat, we have Christ,
Greek
τοῦ προβάτου τοῦ ἀλ[ηθινοῦ] ἐρευνήσωμεν, ὁμο[λογοῦν]τος τοῦ ἀποστόλου τὸ [πρό]βατον τοῦ ἡμετέρου [πάσχα] X(ριστὸ)ν εἶναι λέγοντος[· "Καὶ γὰρ τὸ πάσχα ἡμῶν ἐτύ[θη X(ριστό)ς", οὗ] σάρκες καὶ ὀστέα καὶ α[ἷμα,] ὡς προαπεδείχθη, αἱ [θεῖαι] εἰσιν γραφαί, ἃς ἐ<ά>ν τ[ρώγω]μεν, X(ριστὸ)ν ἔχομεν,
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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