The sacrifice and the eating as roast
And the sacrificing takes place in Egypt, under Pharaoh's rule — the rule that is according to earth and pressed by darkness, which is ignorance. And those under the rule of this ruler of Egypt are in much ignorance of blindness. He himself, having settled in, is held by the glory of his lifting-up, as he said: "Who is the Lord? I do not know, and I will not send Israel away," (Exodus 5:2) confessing the same as "I will set my throne above the clouds; I will go up into heaven; I will be equal to the Most High." (Isaiah 14:13–14) (2 Corinthians 4:4)
Greek
Ἡ δὲ [θ]ύσις γίνεται ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ἀ[ρχ]ῆς οὔσης Φαραώ, τῇ κατὰ γ[ῆν] οὔσῃ καὶ σκότῳ τεθλιμμ[ένῃ], ἥτις ἐστὶν ἄγνοια. Κ[αὶ οἱ] ὑπὸ τὴν τούτου ἀρχὴν [τοῦ τ]ῆς Αἰγύπτου ἄρχοντος ἐν πολλῇ ἀγνοίᾳ τυφλώσεώς εἰσι, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐνοικισθεὶς κεκράτηται δόξῃ ἐπάρσεως αὐτοῦ, καθὼς εἶπεν· "Τίς ἐστιν ὁ κ(ύριο)ς, οὐ γινώσκω, καὶ τὸν Ἰ(σρα)ὴλ οὐκ ἀποστέλλω", ὁμολογῶν τὸ αὐτὸ <τῷ> "Θήσω μου τὸν θρόνον ἐπάνω τῶν νεφελῶν, εἰς οὐρανὸν ἀναβήσομαι, ἔσομαι ἴσος τῷ ὑψίστῳ".
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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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