that the passover is not a figure or type of the passion of Christ but a figure of Christ Himself, of Christ’s passing over to the Father (of which the passion was only a historical part) and, by reason of our incorporation into Christ, of our own still ongoing passing over with Christ to the Father. Each of these two themes is explainable as a strong reaction against the position of Hippolytus and the Quartodecimans (see below), and they do indeed constitute the dominant themes of Origen’s treatise.