Take on the tenth
[...] that the true sheep is Christ, because he, being second after the Father, is taken through the second monad — I mean the number ten (Exodus 12:3) (John 1:29).
Greek
.ο ... ενος ... δος ι ... ετ ... μ ... ται· ομ[ ... λ]αμβαν ... η λαμβ[αν..]ῖν ... ν ὅτι τὸ [ἀλ]ηθὲς π[ρόβατο]ν X(ριστό)[ς] ἐστιν [δι]ὰ τὸ δ[εύτε]ρον αὐ[τὸ]ν ὄντα μετὰ τὸ[ν π(ατέ)ρα] διὰ τῆς δευτέρας μον[άδος], λέγω δὲ τοῦ δέκα ἀρι[θμο]ῦ, λαμβάνεσθαι.
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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