The sacrifice and the eating as roast
Those then who have listened to the prophet will complete this, being sojourners to him, having come to be under his tyranny in a time of famine, as having received from their fathers the most ancient oath-promise that their seed would be a sojourner — as toward father Abraham (Genesis 15:13) (Genesis 12:10) (Acts 7:6).
Greek
Οἱ οὖν τοῦ προφήτου κατακούσαντες τελέσουσιν τοῦτο πάροικοι αὐτῷ ὄντες, κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ τυραννίδα γενόμενοι ἐν χρόνῳ λιμοῦ, ὡς ἀπὸ πατέρων αὐτῶν τὴν παλαιοτ<άτ>ην ὁρκωμοσίαν εἰληφόντες ὅτι πάροικον ἔσται τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν ὡς πρὸς π(ατέ)ρα Ἀβραάμ.
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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