Beginning and first
Since then a beginning does not in every case have the first, but the first in every case has the beginning, he says that this month is a beginning of months and first of the months of the year for them (Exodus 12:2).
Greek
Τῆς οὖν ἀρχῆς ο[ὐ] πάντως ἐχούσης τὸ πρῶ[τον], τοῦ δὲ πρώτου πάντως ἔ[χοντ]ος τὴν ἀρχήν, λέγει τ[ὸν μ]ῆνα τοῦτον ἀρχὴν μη[νῶ]ν καὶ πρῶτον τῶν μηνῶ[ν τ]οῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ αὐτοῖς εἶνα[ι].
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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