Shoes on the feet
He also says that those who chew the Passover are to have the shoes on their feet — which might seem to some a contradiction of what was used toward Moses. For since Moses was treading on holy ground, he is commanded to loose the shoe from his feet. How then, when the Passover too is holy, are those who chew it commanded to have their shoes bound on (Exodus 12:11) (Exodus 3:5) (Acts 7:33) (Joshua 5:15)?
Greek
Λέγει καὶ τὰ ὑποδήματα ἐν τοῖς ποσὶν [ἔ]χειν τοὺς τρώγοντας τὸ π[ά]σχα, ὅπερ ἐναντίωμα τ[ο]ῖς χρησθεῖσιν πρὸς Μωϋσῆ[ν] δόξειέ τισιν εἶναι· ἐπεὶ γὰρ Μ[ω]ϋσῆς ἐφ' ἁγίαν ἐπάτει γ[ῆν], κελεύεται λῦσα<ι> τὸ ὑπό[δημ]α ἐκ τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ. [Π]ῶς οὖν, ἁγίου ὄντος καὶ τοῦ πάσχα, οἱ τοῦτο τ[ρ]ώγοντες ὑποδεδέσθαι κελεύονται τὰ ὑποδήματα αὐτῶν;
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.
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- 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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