The Passover is not a type of the passion
For if he had said: "As Moses made the Passover in Egypt, so must Christ suffer," (John 3:14) it would have been undeniable that it had become a type of the Passover. Since he likened his passion to the serpent hung on wood, his passion would be a type of nothing else but this.
Greek
Εἰ γὰρ εἰρήκει· "Ὥσπερ ἐποίησεν τὸ πάσχα Μωϋσῆς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, οὕτως δε[ῖ παθ]εῖν τὸν X(ριστό)ν", ἀναντίρρητο[ν δ' οὖ]ν τι τύπον τοῦ πάσχ[α γεγ]ονέναι· ἐπειδὴ τὸ πάθ[ος ὡ]μοίωσεν αὐτοῦ τῷ κρ[ε]μα[σθέ]ντι ἐπὶ ξύλου ὄφει, οὐ[κ ἄ]λλου τινὸς ἢ τούτου τύπο[ς ε]ἴη τὸ πάθος αὐτοῦ.
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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