The name of the Passover
And if one of our people, rather rashly, should meet with Hebrews and say that the Passover was named from the Savior's passion, they will laugh at him as one who does not know at all what the name means — if they translate the name of the Passover properly, as the perfect among the Hebrews do.
Greek
Καὶ εἴ τις προπετέστερον τῶν ἡμετέρων Ἑβραίοις συμβαλὼν λέγοι τὸ πάσχα διὰ τὸ πάθος τοῦ σ(ωτῆ)ρ(ο)ς οὕτως ὠνομάσθαι, καταγέλαστος ὑπ' αὐτῶν ἔσται ὡς ὅλως οὐκ ἐ||πιστάμενος τί τὸ σημαινόμε<νο>ν ἐκ τῆς ὀνομασίας, εἰ κυρίως ὡς Ἑβραῖοι οἱ τέλειοι τὸ τοῦ πάσχα ἑρμηνεύσαιεν ὄνομα.
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. 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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