On Pascha · §1.5

What the Passover means for Christians

Since the people of the Hebrews then come out of Egypt, the law is reasonably given them for this feast in this way, household by household: so that each, taking a male sheep, perfect and unblemished, may sacrifice it and toward evening eat it roasted with fire, neither raw nor boiled in water — so that the destroyer of the firstborn of the Egyptians may not touch them, seeing the posts of their doors anointed with the blood.

Greek

Ἐπεὶ ὁ λαὸ[ς ὁ Ἑ]βραίων τότ[ε] ἐξ[έρ]χετ[α]ι τ[ὴν Αἴγυπτον, ὁ] νόμο[ς] ε[ἰκότως αὐ]τοῖς τα[ύτ]ης τῆς ἑορτῆς δίδοται οὕ[τ]ως κα[τ]' ο[ἴ]κους, ὅπως ἕκαστοι πρόβατο[ν] ἄρσεν τέλει[ον ἄ]μωμον λαβό[ντ]ες θύσω[σιν καὶ π]ρὸς ἑ[σ]π[έ]ραν φάγω[σι]ν ὀπτὸ]ν πυ[ρὶ] οὔτε ὠμὸν οὔ[τε ἡ]ψημένον ἐν ὕδατι ἵν' οὕ[τως] ὁ ὀλεθρεύων τὰ πρωτότ[οκα τ]ῶν Αἰγυπτίων μὴ θίγῃ αὐτῶν τὰς φλιὰς τῶν θυρῶν αὐτῶν ὁρῶν τῷ αἵματι κεχρισμένας.