A staff in the hand

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For the one who spares his staff hates his own son, but the one who loves disciplines carefully — we have read in Proverbs (Proverbs 13:24).

Greek

ὁ φειδόμενος γὰρ τῆς βακτηρίας αὐτοῦ μισ[εῖ τ]ὸν ἑαυτοῦ υἱὸν, ὁ δὲ ἀγαπ[ῶ]ν ἐπιμελῶς παιδεύει, ἐν τοῖς Παρ[οιμ]ίαις ἀνέγνωμεν.

Ὠ(ριγένους) [πε]ρὶ πάσχα ᾱ

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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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