The clothing of those at the meal
For the sacrifice is ready for the salvation of those sojourning according to the infancy of love of the nurse that has come to be for them, of the land that reared them — which nurse they had and used as a mother, not knowing the true mother, having been reared with a letting-go of flesh for bodies and with this world, sweeter for a time according to pleasure, held by ignorance of their paternal world — being called Hebrews (Galatians 4:26) (Galatians 4:1–3).
Greek
Ἑτοίμη γὰρ ἡ θυσία ἐπὶ σωτηρίαν τῶν παροικούντων κατὰ νηπιότητα ἀγάπης τῆς αὐτοῖς γενομένης τιθηνοῦ τῆς ἐκθρεψάσης αὐτοὺς γῆς – ἥντινα τιθηνὸν ἐσχηκότες ὡς μητρὶ ἐχρῶντο ἀγνοοῦντες τὴν ἀληθινὴν μητέρα, σαρκὸς δ' ἀνέσ<εσ>ιν σώμασι καὶ προσ||καίρῳ καθ' ἡδονὴν ἡδυτέρῳ κόσμῳ τούτῳ συντραφέντες ἀγνοίᾳ κρατηθέντες τοῦ αὐτῶν πατρικοῦ κόσμου – καλουμένων Ἑβραίων.
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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