Loins girded
For especially through this desire he is able both to overturn and to wrestle down human beings — the loin being understood, as of the man, and the navel of the belly decently as of the woman — so that it may be shown that through such desire he most of all overpowers both the male and the female (Job 40:16).
Greek
[μά]λιστα γὰρ διὰ ταύτης τῆς ὀρέξεως καὶ ἐκστρέφειν καὶ καταπαλαίειν δυνατός ἐστιν τοὺς ἀν(θρώπ)ους, τῆς ὀσφύος ὡς {δὲ} ἐπὶ τοῦ <ἀνδρὸς καὶ τοῦ> ὀμφαλοῦ τῆς γασ[τ]ρὸς εὐσχημόνως ὡς ἐπὶ τῆ<ς> θ[η]λεία<ς> νοουμένων, ἵνα δηλωθῇ ὅτι διὰ τῆς τοιαύτης ὀρέξεως μάλιστα κατισχύει καὶ τὸν ἄρρενα καὶ τὴν θηλείαν.
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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