Keep it until the fourteenth
For the sheep was sacrificed on the fourteenth of the month in the midst of the evenings, when, as the fifteenth begins, the circle of the moon becomes most full, as those who study these things hold (Exodus 12:6).
Greek
Ἐθύετο γὰρ] τὸ πρόβατον τῇ [τεσσαρεσκαι]δεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς [ἀνὰ μέ]σον τῶν ἑσπερινῶν, [ὅτε, ἀρ]χομένης πεντεκαιδ[εκά]της, πληρέστατος ὁ τ[ῆς σε]λήνης κύκλος γίνετ[αι|| [ὡς τοῖς περὶ ταῦτα δοκεῖ.
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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