The name of the Passover
For on this feast the people come out of Egypt, and so it is called phas, that is, crossing. The name cannot be spoken in Hebrew through the Greek tongue. The Greeks cannot say phas with the heavier breathing the Hebrews use. So the name was made Greek. In the prophets it is said phasek. When it has been more fully made Greek, it has been named pascha (Ezekiel 45:21) (2 Chronicles 35:1).
Greek
Ἐπεὶ [γ]ὰρ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ [ἑο]ρτῇ ὁ λαὸς ἐξ Α[ἰγύπτου] ἐξ[έρχε]ται, ἀκολούθως φ[ας] κα[λ]εῖ[ται, τοῦτ' ἔσ]τιν διάβασ[ις]. Οὐχ οἵ[ου] τε οὖν ὄντος διὰ τῆς Ἑλλάδος φωνῆς [α]ὐτὸ ἑβραϊκῶς λ[έγεσ]θαι τὸ ὄνομα, [οὐ] δυναμ[ένων Ἑλ]λήνων π[α]ρὰ τὸ μὴ ἰ[σχύειν τ]ῇ δασείᾳ τ[ῇ] παρ' Ἑβρα[ίοις] με[ί]ζονι λέγειν φας, ἐξηλ[λη]νίσθη τὸ ὄνομα, καὶ ἐν μ[ὲν τ]οῖς προφήταις φασὲκ [εἴ]ρηται, τελειοτέρω[ς] δὲ ἐξελληνισθὲν πάσχα ὠνόμασται.
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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