The clothing of those at the meal
For they go over through the name of this mystery, having partaken of it, having procured for themselves salvation: not to be destroyed together with the firstborn of the Egyptians from Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, even to the maidservant at the mill — that is, of those who are in a lifting-up of wealth and tyranny, in ignorance, and have not recognized the one who raises kings from a dunghill and seats them on royal thrones (Exodus 11:5) (Exodus 12:29) (1 Samuel 2:8) (Psalm 113:7–8).
Greek
Ὑπερβαίνουσιν γὰρ διὰ τῆς ὀνομασίας τοῦ μυστηρίου τούτου μετειληφότες αὐτοῦ, σωτηρίαν ἑαυτοῖς πορισάμενοι τὸ μὴ συνεξολεθρευθῆναι τοῖς πρωτοτόκοις τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀπὸ Φαραώ, ὃς καθῆται ἐπὶ τοῦ θρόνου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἕως παιδίσκης τῆς παρὰ τὸν μύλον, ὅ ἐστιν τῶν ἐν ἐπάρσει πλούτου καὶ τυραννίδος ὄντων ἐν ἀγνοίᾳ καὶ μὴ ἐπιγνόντων τὸν βασιλεῖς ἐγείροντα ἀπὸ κοπρίας καὶ καθιζάνοντα ἐπὶ θρόνους βασιλικούς.
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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