For you
It is clear that that month was not then a beginning of months for all the people, but only for Moses and Aaron, to whom it was said. For a person must fully renounce the creation and this world, so as to grasp that one has almost been born another than what one was — in order to hear: This month is for you a beginning of months; it is first for you among the months of the year (Exodus 12:2) (Galatians 6:14).
Greek
δῆλον ὅτι οὐ παντὶ τῷ λαῷ τότε ἐκεῖνος ἦν ὁ μὴν ἀρχὴ μηνῶν ἀλλὰ [μό]νοις Μωϋσῇ καὶ Ἀαρών, π[ρὸς οἷ]ς εἴρηται. Τελείως γὰρ ἀπ[οτά]ξασθαι τῇ κτίσει καὶ τῷ κ[όσ]μῳ τούτῳ δεῖ ὡς καταλαμ[β]άνειν ὅτι σχεδὸν ἕτερος γ[εγ]ένηταί τις παρ' ὃ ἦν, ἵνα [ἀ]κοῦσαι δυνηθῇ· Ὁ μὴ[ν] οὗτο[ς σοὶ] ἀρχὴ μηνῶν, πρῶτ[ός ἐσ]τι [σοὶ ἐ]ν τοῖς μησὶν το[ῦ ἐνι]α[υτο]ῦ.
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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