Beginning and first
And so a beginning of months has come to be for them. And we should attend to lacuna the beginning and the first lacuna, but "This month is a beginning of months for you; it is first among the months of the year." (Exodus 12:2)
Greek
Καὶ [ο]ὕτως ἀ[ρχὴ μηνῶ]ν αὐτοῖς [γ]έγον[εν· ἄξιον] δὲ ἐπιστῆσαι π ... νος σημαι[ν ... τὴν ἀρ]χὴν καὶ τὸ π[ρῶτον ... ]ει ἢ ε ... τε ... ται τι.. μηνων, [ἀλ]λὰ "[Ὁ μ]ὴν [ο]ὗ[τος ἀρχὴ] μηνῶν [ὑμ]ῖν, π[ρῶτός ἐστι]ν ἐν τοῖς [μησ]ὶν τ[οῦ ἐνιαυτο]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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