§9« Πᾶς ὅς ἄν φάγῃ ζύμην, ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἡ ψυχὴ ἐκείνη ἐξ Ἰσραήλ. » Ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἄνθρωπος ἕνεκεν ζύμης· καὶ ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς ὁ χρηματίζων τοὺς νόμους, ὡς ὀλοθρεύει μοιχὸν, ὡς ὀλοθρεύει πόρνον, ὡς ὀλοθρεύει παιδοφθόρον, οὕτως ὀλοθρεύει τὸν ἔχοντα ζύμην ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ τῶν ἀζύμων ἡμέρᾳ.
«Whoever eats leaven, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.» A man shall be cut off on account of leaven; and does the God of all, who ordains the laws, just as He destroys the adulterer, just as He destroys the fornicator, just as He destroys the corrupter of youth, in this way destroy the one who has leaven in his house on the day of unleavened bread?
Τοῦτο κατὰ Θεόν ἐστι;
Is this according to God?
τοῦτο κατὰ νόμον τὸν οὐράνιόν ἐστιν;
Is this according to the heavenly law?
Ἀλλʼ εἴποιμι ἂν ὅτι ἐὰν ἔχῃς ζύμην πονηρίας, καὶ μὴ ἐξολοθρεύσῃς πᾶσαν ζύμην κακίας ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡγεμονικοῦ σου· αὕτη γἅρ ἐστιν ἡ ἀληθινὴ φἰκία σου· ὁ Θεὸς τῶν ὅλων νομοθετεῖ ἐξολοθρευθῆναί σε μὴ ἀποβαλόντα τὴν ζύμην τὴν παλαιὰν ἀπὸ σεαυτυῦ.
But I would say that if you have the leaven of wickedness, and do not cut off all the leaven of evil from your ruling principle (hegemonikon)—for this is your true house—the God of all decrees that you be cut off if you do not cast away the old leaven from yourself.
Χρὴ γάρ σε ἐλθόντα εἰς τὸν καιρὸν τῶν νέων, νέον γενόμενον μηδὲν ἕχειν ἀρχαῖον. « Τὰ ἀρχαῖα παρῆλθε,» καὶ τὰ ἐξῆς.
For you, having come to the season of new things, having become new, must have nothing ancient. «The ancient things have passed away,» and so on.
Ὅρα πῶς ἔδει ἑορτάζειν ἐν μηνὶ τῶν νέων τὴν ἑορτὴν τῶν ἀζύμων.
See how it was necessary to celebrate the feast of unleavened bread in the month of new things.
§10«Καθίξετε τῆς φλιᾶς, καὶ ἐπʼ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν σταθμῶν, ἀπὸ τοῦ αἵματος ὅ ἐστι παρὰ τὴν θύραν. » φλιᾶς μὲν, ὡς ἀποδέδωκέ τις τῶν πρὸ ἡμῶν, τοῦ λογικοῦ· ἀμφοτέρων δὲ σταθμῶν, θυμικοῦ καὶ ἐπιθυμητικοῦ.
«You shall touch the lintel and both doorposts with the blood that is by the door.» The "lintel," as one of those before us explained, is the rational part; and "both doorposts" are the spirited and the desiring parts.
§11Γοῦ αὐτοῦ.
By the same author.
Οὐ γὰρ ἐντὸς γενόμενον τὸν ὀλοθρευτὴν διʼ ἐπινοίας ἐκβάλλομεν, ἀλλʼ ὅπως ἂν μηδὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν παρεισδύη, φυλακὴν διὰ τοῦ νόμου ποιούμεθα.
For we do not cast out the destroyer by some device after he has come inside, but we keep guard through the law so that he may not even enter in the first place.
Φυλακὴ δέ ἐστι καὶ ἀσφάλεια, τὸ, τῷ αἵματι τοῦ ἀμνοῦ τήν τε φλιὰν καὶ τοὺς σταθμοὺς τῆς εἰσόδου κατασημαίνεσθαι.
And the guard and security is the marking of the lintel and the doorposts of the entrance with the blood of the lamb.
§12Ἐγενήθη δὲ μεσούσης τῆς νυκτὸς, καὶ Κύριος ἐπάταξε πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ. » Διʼ ἀγγέλων γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς τὰς θανατηφόρους ταύτας ἐπάγει πληγὰς, ὡς καὶ ἐν ταῖς Βασιλείαις ἔγνωμεν πῶς ἐν μιᾷ νυκτὶ ὁ ἄγγελος ἀνεῖλε τῶν Ἀσσυρίων ρπε΄ χιλιάδας.
«And it came to pass at midnight, and the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt.» For God brings these death-bearing plagues through angels, just as we also know in Kings how in one night the angel destroyed one hundred and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians.
§13«Οὗτος ὁ νόμος τοῦ Πάσχα· Πᾶς ἀλλογενὴς οὐκ ἔδεται ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ.
«This is the law of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat of it.
Καὶ πάντα οἰκέτην τινὸς, καὶ ἀργυρώνητον περιτεμεῖς αὐτὸν, καὶ τότε φάγεται ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ· » καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς.
And every slave of anyone, bought with money, you shall circumcise him, and then he shall eat of it;» and so on.
Ἀκολούθως τοῖς παρατεθεῖσι τρίτος ἐστὶν οὗτος νόμος. ὃν εἷπε πάλιν ὁ Κύριος παρὰ τοὺς δύο νόμους.
Consistently with what has been set forth, this is the third law, which the Lord spoke again besides the two laws.
Πρόσχες δὲ τῇ ἀκριβείᾳ τῆς Γραφῆς, ὅτι οὐκ εἷπε τοῦτον τὸν νόμον τὸν περὶ τοῦ Πάσχα ὁ Κύριος ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ.
But pay attention to the precision of the Scripture, that the Lord did not speak this law concerning the Passover in the beginning.
Εἰ γὰρ εἰρήκει ἔτι ὄντων ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πρὶν ἀπᾷραι ἐκ τῆς Αἰγύπτου τὸν Ἰσραὴλ, τὸ, « Πᾶς ἀλλογενὴς οὐκ ἔδεται ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ.
For if He had spoken while they were still in Egypt, before Israel departed from Egypt: «No foreigner shall eat of it.
Καὶ πάντα οἰκέτην τινὸς, καὶ ἀργυρώνητον περιτεμεῖς, καὶ τότε φάγεται ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ, » οὐκ ἂν ἐξεληλύθησαν ὁ πολύμικτος πολὺς ὅχλος ὁ ἐξελθὼν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου.
And every slave of anyone, bought with money, you shall circumcise, and then he shall eat of it,» the great mixed multitude that went out of Egypt would not have gone out.
Ἐτήρησεν οὖν τὸν νόμον τοῦτον, ἵνα μετὰ τοῦ ἐξελθεῖν τοὺς βουλομένους δοθῇ ἄλλος νόμος.
Therefore, He reserved this law, so that after those who wished had gone out, another law might be given.
Καὶ μετʼ ὀλίγα.
And after a little.
Ἐὰν ἀλληγορῶμεν ταῦτα εἰς τὴν ψυχὴν ἡμῶν, ἐροῦμεν ὅτι οἰκογενεῖς μέν εἰσιν εἱ συμπεφυκότες ἡμῖν καὶ γεωργηθέντες λόγοι, καὶ ἐπιστῆναι ἀπὸ συμφύτων ἐννοιῶν ἀρξάμενοι· ἀργυρώνητοι δὲ, ὅσοι ἐκ διδασκαλίας ἡμῖν ἐπιγίνονται ἕξωθεν ἀπὸ τῶν μαθημάτων.
If we allegorize these things in relation to our soul, we will say that the home-born are the reasons (logoi) that are innate to us and cultivated, starting to understand from innate conceptions; and the bought with money are all those that come to us from outside through instruction from lessons.
Πάντας οὖν φησι περιτέμνειν καὶ καθαίρειν, καὶ τοὺς οἰκογενεῖς, καὶ τοὺς ἀργυρωνήτους.
Therefore, He says to circumcise and purify everyone, both the home-born and the bought with money.
Ἀλλογενῆ δὲ οὐδένα δεῖ προσλαμβάνειν, οἷον ἀλλότριον δόγμα προσιεμένους· ἀλλογενῆ γὰρ οὐ παραδέχεται, ὃς βούλεται βεβηλῶσαι τὴν ἑορτὴν τοῦ Κυρίου.
But we must not accept any foreigner, as if receiving a foreign doctrine; for He does not admit a foreigner who wishes to profane the feast of the Lord.
Καὶ μετʼ ὀλιγα.
And after a little.
Εἰ γὰρ ἐν Ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐσθίεις λόγους Θεοῦ, ἐσθίεις δὲ καὶ ἐν Ἰουδαίων συναγωγῇ, παραβαίνεις τὴν λέγουσαν ἐντολὴν, « Ἐν οἰκίᾳ μιᾷ βρωθήσεται. » Εἰ δὲ μεταλαμβάνεις λόγων Θεοῦ, ἐν οἰκίᾳ μιᾷ τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ· εἶτα καταλιπὼν αὐτὴν, ὑπολαμβάνεις μεταλαμβάνειν Θεοῦ ἐν αἱρετικῇ συναγω γῇ, λεγούσης τῆς ἐντολῆς, « Ἐν οἰκίᾳ μιᾷ βρωθήσεται, » σὺ οὐκ ἐσθίεις ἐν οἰκίᾳ μιᾷ.
For if you eat the words of God in the Church, but you also eat in the synagogue of the Jews, you transgress the commandment which says: «It shall be eaten in one house.» And if you partake of the words of God in one house, the Church; then leaving it, you suppose you partake of God in a heretical synagogue, while the commandment says: «It shall be eaten in one house,» you do not eat in one house.
Μίαν οὖν νοήσαι οἰκίαν τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν· μηδαμοῦ οὖν ἔσθιε τοῦ προβάτου ἔξω γενόμενος τῆς Ἐκκλησίας.
Understand, therefore, the Church to be the one house; do not eat of the sheep anywhere if you are outside the Church.
§14« Καὶ οὐκ ἐξοίσετε ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας τῶν κρεῶν ἔξω. » Ἐκκλησιαστικὸν λόγον οὐ δεῖ ἔξω τῆς Ἐκκλησίας πρεσβεύειν, ὡς ἕξω τῆς οἰκίας μὴ ἐκφέρειν τὰ κρέα· φημὶ δὲ εἰς συναγωγὴν Ἰουδαίων ἥ αἱρετικῶν· ὅμοιον γάρ ἐστι τῷ ῥίψαι τοὺς μαργαρίτας ἔμπροσθεν τῶν χοίρων.
«And you shall not carry any of the flesh outside of the house.» One must not preach the ecclesiastical word outside of the Church, just as one does not carry the flesh outside of the house; and I mean into a synagogue of Jews or heretics; for it is like throwing pearls before swine.