The taking and the keeping
For as those were prefigured in a male sheep, so we in a human being who is as a lamb. As in a perfect one, so we in his fullness, he having completed the Father's will. As in a yearling, so at the end of ages — for as the year is a completing of months, so he too is a completing of law and prophets. As in an unblemished one, so in one without sin. As in the first month, so in the beginning of all creation, in which all things have been created. On the tenth, in the fullness of monarchy (Colossians 1:16) (Exodus 12:3–5) (John 1:29) (Colossians 1:19) (Colossians 2:9) (John 17:4) (Matthew 5:17) (1 Corinthians 10:11) (Galatians 4:4).
Greek
Ὡς γὰρ ἐ||κεῖνοι προετυπώθησαν ἐν ἀρσενικῷ προβάτῳ, οὕτως ἡμεῖς ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ ὡς ἀμνῷ· <ὡς> ἐν τελείῳ, [οὕ]τως ἡμεῖς ἐν πληρώματ[ι αὐ]τοῦ τελειώσαντος τὸ πατρικὸν βούλημα· ὡς <ἐν> ἐνιαυ[σί]ῳ, οὕτως ἐν τέλει αἰώνων – [ὥ]ς γὰρ ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς συμπληρ[ωτι]κός ἐστιν μηνῶν, οὕτω[ς καὶ α]ὐτὸς συμπληρωτικός ἐσ[τιν] νόμου τε καὶ προφητῶν – ὡς ἐν ἀμώμῳ, οὕτως ἐν ἀναμαρτήτῳ· ὡς ἐν μηνὶ πρώτῳ, οὕτως {τὸ ὡς} ἐν ἀρχῇ πάσης κτίσεως, ἐν ᾧ ἔκτισται τὰ πάντα· ἐν δεκάτῃ, ἐν πληρώματι μοναρχίας.
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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