The taking and the keeping
For to these the salvation has come about through his blood, of Christ as of an unblemished lamb. For "as a sheep he was led to slaughter, and as a lamb before the one who shears it is voiceless, so he does not open his mouth. Who will recount his generation, because his life is taken from the earth, and from the lawlessness of his people he was led to his death. And I will give the poor in return for his death and the rich in return for his burial, because he did no sin, nor was deceit found in his mouth." (Isaiah 53:7–9) (1 Peter 1:19) (Acts 8:32–33) (1 Peter 2:22)
Greek
Τούτοις γὰρ ἡ σωτηρία περιεγένετο διὰ {τῆς} τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ τοῦ ὡς ἀμνοῦ ἀμώμου X(ριστο)ῦ · τὸ γὰρ "ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη, καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείροντος αὐτὸν ἄφωνος, οὕτως οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα. Τὴν γενεὰν αὐτοῦ τις διηγήσεται, ὅτι αἴρεται ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνομιῶν τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ ἤχθη εἰς θάνατον [αὐ]τοῦ. Καὶ δώσω τοὺς πτω[χοὺς ἀντὶ] τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ [καὶ τοὺς π]λουσίους ἀντὶ τῆς [τ]αφῆς αὐ[τ]οῦ, ὅτι ἁμαρτίαν [ο]ὐκ ἐποίησεν οὐδὲ εὑρέθη δόλος ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ".
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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