Roast with fire, not raw, not boiled
If then some use the bare words themselves, these would be chewing the flesh of the Savior raw. And partaking of his flesh raw they will procure death for themselves and not life, eating his flesh in a beastlike way and not as humans — since the apostle teaches us that the letter kills, but the Spirit makes alive (2 Corinthians 3:6) (John 6:53–54).
Greek
Εἴ τινες οὖν αὐταῖς λέξεσι ψιλαῖς χρῶνται, οὗτοι ἂν τὰς σάρκας τοῦ σ(ωτῆ)ρ(ο)ς τρώγοιεν ὠμάς, καὶ μεταλαμβάνοντες ὠμῶν τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτοῦ θάνατον καὶ οὐ ζωὴν αὐτοῖς περιποιήσονται θηριωδῶς καὶ οὐκ ἀνθρωπίνως ἐσθίοντες αὐτοῦ τ]ὰς <σ>άρ[κας, ἐπεὶ τὸ γράμμα ἀποκ]τέννει[ν, τὸ δὲ πν(εῦμ)α ζωοποιεῖν] διδάσκ[ει ἡμᾶς ὁ ἀπόστο]λος.
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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