The Passover is not a type of the passion
For the Savior himself says: "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up," (John 3:14) according to the type of the serpent hung on the wood by Moses, signifying nothing other than the passion of the Savior insofar as he was hung on wood. It is clear, then, that the passion will be taken according to the type of the serpent and not according to the type of the Passover (Numbers 21:8–9) (Deuteronomy 21:23).
Greek
αὐ[τὸς] γάρ φη[σιν ὁ σ(ωτ)ήρ· "Ὥσ]περ Μωϋσῆς ὕψ[ωσεν] τὸν ὄφ[ιν] ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, [οὕτω]ς ὑψω[θῆ]ναι δεῖ τὸν υἱὸ[ν τοῦ] ἀν(θρώπ)ου" κατὰ τὸν τύπ[ον το]ῦ ὄφεως τοῦ ἐπὶ ξύλου κρ[ε]μασθέντος ὑπὸ Μωϋσέως, οὐχ ἕτερόν τι σημαίνων ἢ τὸ πάθος τοῦ σ(ωτῆ)ρ(ο)ς καθὸ ἐκρεμάσθη ἐπὶ ξύλου – δῆλον ὅτι κατὰ τὸν <τύπον> τοῦ ὄφεως τὸ πάθος ληφθή||σεται καὶ οὐ κατὰ τὸν τύπον τοῦ 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. Damaged lines are marked as gaps, not filled from another edition. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition.
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- 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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