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Origen: Treatise on the Passover and Dialogue of Origen with Heraclides and His Fellow Bishops on the Father, the Son, and the Soul is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Treatise on the Passover was written around AD 245. Its central insight is that the Passover is not a figure or type of the passion of Christ, but a figure of Christ himself. The Dialogue with Heraclides was written between AD 244 and 249. It is the record of an unknown meeting—probably a synod—of bishops called to discuss matters of belief and worship. Both pieces come from the last decade...

Origen’s theology of the passover is based primarily on his exegesis of Exodus 12. However, it is not based exclusively, and, as we shall see, perhaps not even decisively, on Exodus 12. For what he does here is fully consistent with his general principles of biblical interpretation. He is indeed interested in the letter of the biblical text or, as in this case, the “history” of the Exodus, but primarily because it is a key to
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