Perfect, a yearling, male
it is reasonably counted toward a sheep. "A perfect male yearling" (Exodus 12:5) sheep. For Christ is perfect in that he lacks nothing and has nothing incomplete through himself. Male makes clear what is firm and manly in him. And it has been called a yearling since the year means a completed number, the sun being restored to its own place through twelve months (Colossians 1:19) (Colossians 2:9).
Greek
συ[να]ριθμε[ῖτ]αι [εἰκότ]ως εἰς πρόβατον. "Τέλ[ει]ον ἄρσ[εν] ἐνιαύσιο[ν]" πρόβατον. Τέλειον γάρ ἐστιν ὁ X(ριστὸ)ς τῷ ἐν μηδενὶ ὑστερεῖσθαι μηδὲ ἐλλιπές τι ἔχειν δι' αὐτοῦ. Ἄρρεν δὲ τὸ στερεὸν καὶ ἀνδρεῖον αὐτοῦ δηλοῦται. Ἐνιαύσιον δὲ εἴρηται ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς σημαίνει ἀριθμὸν|| [πεπληρωμένον, ἡλίου ἀποκαθισταμένου ἐπὶ τὸν ἴδιον τόπον διὰ μηνῶν δώδεκα.]
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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