On Pascha · §1.75

Blood on the houses

lacuna which we sacrifice, and we anoint our houses with blood, I mean our body, which anointing is the faith in him, through which we believe that the power of the destroyer is being abolished.

Greek

[ ... ὃ θύομεν, καὶ χρίομεν τοὺς οἴκ]ους ἡμ[ῶν αἵματι, λέγω δὴ τὸ σῶμ]α ἡμῶν, [ἥπερ] χρῖσ[ις ἡ πίστι]ς ἐστὶν [ἡ εἰς] αὐτόν, [δι' ἧς πι]στεύο[μ]εν τὴν τ[οῦ ὀλε]θρ[ε]υτοῦ δύναμιν κα[ταρ]γου[μ]ένην.