Break no bone
the words becoming his bones, and the thoughts from the wording the flesh — on which, as is likely, we step and see the things after these in a riddle and through a mirror — and the blood the faith of the gospel of the new covenant, as the apostle bears witness: "And having counted the blood of the covenant a common thing." (1 Corinthians 13:12) By this blood, by faith, having been anointed, we shall escape the destroyer (Hebrews 10:29) (Exodus 12:23) (Hebrews 9:20).
Greek
τῶν [μὲν λέ]ξεων τῶν ὀστῶν αὐ[τοῦ γι]νομένων, τῶν δὲ σ[αρκῶν] τῶν ἐκ τῆς λέξεως νο[ημά]των, οἵστισιν ὡς εἰκὸς [ἐπι]βαίνοντες ἐν αἰνίγμα[τι] καὶ δι' ἐσόπτρου βλέπο[μεν] τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα, αἵματ[ος δὲ] τῆς πίστεως τοῦ εὐαγ[γελί]ου τῆς καινῆς διαθήκης, ὥ[ς ὁ ἀ]πόστολος μαρτυρεῖ λέγ[ων] οὕτως· "Καὶ τὸ αἷμα τῆς δ[ιαθή]κης κοινὸν ἡγησάμεν[ος]", ᾧπερ αἵματι, τῇ πίστει, χρι]||σθ[έ]ντες τὸν ὀλεθρεύοντα [διαφ]ευξόμεθα.
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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