A defense of spiritual interpretation
Now we ask whether it was completed only in their time, the deed having been fulfilled, so that it need not be received in another sense for the times that complete things among us, into which the ends of the ages have come (1 Corinthians 10:11).
Greek
ἐπιζητουμένης δὲ νῦν ὑφ' ἡμῶν εἰ μόνῳ χρόνῳ τῷ κατ' ἐκείνους, πεπληρωμένου τοῦ πράγματος, τετέλεσται, ὡς μὴ δεῖν ἄλλως κατ' ἄλλην ἐκδοχὴν δέξασθαι εἰς τοὺς καθ' ἡμᾶς συμπληρωτικοὺς χρόνους, εἰς οὓς τὰ τέλη τῶν αἰώνων κατήντηκεν,
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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