A staff in the hand
And so that we may see the likeness of the law to the gospel, we shall set beside the things said according to the law also things from the gospel. Moses, about to lead the people out of Egypt in order to bring them into the holy land, receiving commandments of God, is commanded not to have a shoe. And the apostles, being sent to lead the people from the nations out of intelligible Egypt, are commanded not to take a staff for the road, nor a bag, nor to have sandals bound on (Exodus 3:5) (Matthew 10:10) (Luke 9:3) (Luke 10:4) (Mark 6:8).
Greek
Ἵνα δὲ τὴν ὁμοιότ[η]τα τοῦ νόμου τὴν πρὸς τὸ εὐ[α]γγέλιον ἴδωμεν, τὰ νομ[ίμ]ως εἰρημένα καὶ ἐξ εὐαγγε[λι]κῶν παραθησόμεθα. Μω[ϋσ]ῆς τὸν λαὸν μέλλων ἐξ[αγα]γεῖν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, ἵνα εἰς τὴ[ν ἁ]γίαν γῆν εἰσάξῃ ἐντολὰς θ(εο)ῦ λαμβάνων, κελεύεται ὑπόδημα μὴ ἔχειν, καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι ἀποστελλόμενοι ἐξᾶξαι ἀπὸ τῆς <νοητῆς> Αἰγύπτου τὸν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸν κελεύονται μὴ ῥάβδον α<ἴ>ρειν εἰς ὁδόν, μὴ πήραν μηδὲ σανδάλια ὑποδεδέσθαι.
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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