The Passover is not a type of the passion
And that the Passover is intelligible and not this sensible one, he himself says: "Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in yourselves." (John 6:53) Must we then chew his flesh according to sense and drink his blood? But if he says this intelligibly, then the Passover too is intelligible and not sensible.
Greek
[Καὶ ] ὅ[τ]ι [νοητόν ἐστι] τὸ πάσχα [καὶ] οὐ τ[οῦτο τὸ αἰσθη]τόν, α[ὐτὸς] λέγ[ει· "Ἐὰν μ]ὴ φάγη[τ]έ μο[υ τὴν σάρ]κα καὶ πί[η]τέ μο[υ τὸ] αἷμα, οὐκ ἔχετε ζωὴ[ν ἐν] ἑαυτοῖς". Ὀφείλομ[εν ἄρ]α κατὰ αἰσθητὸν τὰς [σ]άρκας αὐτοῦ τρώγειν καὶ τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ πίνειν; Εἰ δὲ τοῦτο νοητῶς λέγει, ἄρα νοητὸν καὶ οὐκ αἰσθητόν ἐστι τὸ πάσχα.
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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