To whom the spiritual interpretation is spoken
The spiritual sense, then, I try to set out by the grace of God, so that the salvation completed in Christ — God's effective salvation — may become clear to those who love to learn, as it is written: "As many as received him, he gave them authority to become children of God, who were born not of bloods nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of a man, but of God." (John 1:12–13)
Greek
Τὴν οὖν π[ν](ευματ)ικὴν ἔννοιαν χάριτ[ι θ(εο)ῦ παρ]αθέ[σ]θαι πειρῶμαι, ἵνα τ[οῖς φι]λομαθέσιν κατάδηλος [γ]ένηται [ἡ] ἐν X(ριστ)ῷ τελεσθεῖ[σα σωτηρί<α>] ἔνεργος θ(εο)ῦ κ[αθὼς] γέ[γρα]πται· "Ὅσοι ἔλαβο[ν αὐτ]όν, ἔ[δ]ω||κεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν τέκνα θ(εο)ῦ γενέσθαι, οἳ οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος <σαρκὸς οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος> ἀνδρὸς ἀλλ' ἐκ θ(εο)ῦ ἐγεννήθησαν".
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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