Using up the sacrificed meat
For if those too were making this haste, to bring him to the sacred service for their sanctification — which for them the commandment fulfilled: "You shall eat it in haste; it is a Passover to the Lord," (Exodus 12:11) which is a going-over of the Lord.
Greek
Εἰ γὰρ κἀκεῖνοι σπουδὴν ἐποιοῦντο ταύτην τὸ ὑπὲρ ἁγιασμοῦ αὐτῶν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν ἱερουργίαν ἄγειν, ἣν αὐτοῖς ἡ ἐντολὴ πεπληρωμένη τό· "Φάγεσθε αὐτὸ μετὰ σπουδῆς, πάσχα ἐστὶν κ(υρί)ῳ", ὅ ἐστιν ὑπέρβασις κ(υρί)ου.
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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