The Passover is not a type of the passion
And let us see whether what has been said by the Savior follows what was said in the Passover. For as it was said there that the one who has not eaten the Passover shall be utterly destroyed from his people, so now he says of the true sheep that the one who has not eaten of his flesh does not have life. As there the destroyer cannot touch those who have eaten of the sheep, so now the one who has eaten of the true sheep flees the destroyer (Numbers 9:13) (John 6:53) (Exodus 12:23) (Exodus 12:15).
Greek
Καὶ ἴδωμεν|| εἰ ἀκολουθεῖ τοῖς ἐν τῷ πάσχα εἰρημένοις τὰ ὑπὸ τοῦ σ(ωτῆ)ρ(ο)ς λ[ε]λεγμένα. Ὡς γὰρ ἐκεῖ εἴρηται τὸν μὴ φαγόντ[α] τὸ πάσχα ἐξολεθρευθή[σεσθ]αι ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ, κ[αὶ ν]ῦν λέγει τὸ ἀληθὲς πρόβα[τον τ]ὸν μὴ φαγόντα τῶν σαρ[κῶν] αὐτοῦ μὴ ἔχειν ζωήν· ὥ[ς ἐκ]εῖ ὁ ὀλεθρεύων οὐ δύναται τ[ῶ]ν φαγόντων τοῦ προβάτου [θιγεῖ]ν, καὶ νῦν ὁ τοῦ [ἀληθοῦς προβ]άτου φα[γ]ὼν τὸν ὀ[λεθρευτὴν] κατα[φεύγει.
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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