Beginning and first
In the making of the world it is said at once at the opening: "In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth." (Genesis 1:1) For Scripture, knowing a distinction of "first" and "beginning," does not say: "He made first."
Greek
Ἐν τῇ κοσμοποιίᾳ εὐ[θέω]ς κατὰ τὴν εἰσβολὴν λέγε[ται]· "Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἐποίησ[ε]ν ὁ θ(εὸ)ς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τ[ὴν] γῆν." Διαστο[λ]ὴν γὰ[ρ εἰ]δυίας τῆς γραφῆ[ς π]ρώ[του] καὶ ἀρχῆ[ς], οὐ λέγε[ι]· "Πρώτην ἐ]ποίησεν"·
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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