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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on John… (1885)

As, then, the people when it does not sin is the people of God, but when it sins is no longer spoken of as His, thus, also, the feasts when they are hated by the Lord’s soul are said to be feasts of sinners, but when the law is given regarding them, they are called feasts of the Lord. Now of these feasts passover is one, which in the passage before us is said to be that not of the Lord, but of the Jews.
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Portrait of Origen Origen Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. IX, Origen on John… (1885)

And Feasts Not So Spoken of.
“And the passover of the Jews was at hand.” [1] Inquiring into the accuracy of the most wise John (on this passage) , I put myself the question, What is indicated by the addition “of the Jews”? Of what other nation was the passover a festival? Would it not have been enough to say, “And the passover was at hand”? It may, however, be the case that the human passover is one thing when kept by men not as Scripture intended, and that the divine passover is another thing, the true passover, observed in spirit and truth by those who worship God in spirit and in truth
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