One sheep per house

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For he gathers the crowds not as he gathers those who chew his bread, but the like with the like, and sets it before them. And the next saying that follows is like this, and the same in force as what is being explained (Mark 6:39–41).

Greek

[Τ]οὺς γὰρ λαοὺς οὐχ ὁμοίως τῶν ἄρτον τρωγόντων αὐτοῦ <ἀλλὰ> τοὺς ὁμοίους μετὰ τῶν ὁμοίων συναγαγὼν παρατίθησιν αὐτοῖς. Καὶ τὸ ἑξῆς δὲ ἐπιφερόμενον ῥητὸν ὅμοιον καὶ ταὐτόν ἐστιν τῇ δυνάμει τοῖς ἑρμηνευομένοις. ||

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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