The name of the Passover
This is enough about the name itself, taken on its own — enough to teach us what the name phas means, and enough to build us up: not to throw ourselves rashly at what is said in Hebrew, trying it without first knowing the Hebrew sense. Now we shall examine the words themselves. The Passover means crossing.
Greek
Καὶ ταῦτα μὲν [ἱ]κανὰ περὶ αὐτῆς ψιλῆς τῆς [ὀν]ομασίας εἴρηται εἰς τὸ δ[ιδ]αχθῆναι ἡμᾶς τί τὸ σημ[αιν]όμενον ἐκ τῆς τοῦ φας ὀνομασία[ς] καὶ εἰς τὸ οἰκοδομηθῆναι, μὴ προπετῶς τοῖς ἑβραϊκῶς εἰ[ρη]μένοις ἐπιχειροῦσι ἐπιβά[λλε]ιν καὶ μὴ οὐχὶ πρότερον [τὴ]ν ἑρμήνειαν τὴν ἑβραϊ[κ]ὴν ἐπεγνωκόσι[ν], ἐλευσόμ[εθα δ]ὲ κ[αὶ] ἐπ' αὐτῶν ἤδη τῶν [ῥή]τ[ῶν τὴ]ν ἐξέτ[α]σιν, διάβ[ασι]ν ση[μα]ίνοντος τοῦ πάσχ[α].
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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