On Pascha · §2.19

The clothing of those at the meal

For the sacrifice is ready for the salvation of those sojourning according to the infancy of love of the nurse that has come to be for them, of the land that reared them — which nurse they had and used as a mother, not knowing the true mother, having been reared with a letting-go of flesh for bodies and with this world, sweeter for a time according to pleasure, held by ignorance of their paternal world — being called Hebrews.

Greek

Ἑτοίμη γὰρ ἡ θυσία ἐπὶ σωτηρίαν τῶν παροικούντων κατὰ νηπιότητα ἀγάπης τῆς αὐτοῖς γενομένης τιθηνοῦ τῆς ἐκθρεψάσης αὐτοὺς γῆς – ἥντινα τιθηνὸν ἐσχηκότες ὡς μητρὶ ἐχρῶντο ἀγνοοῦντες τὴν ἀληθινὴν μητέρα, σαρκὸς δ' ἀνέσ<εσ>ιν σώμασι καὶ προσ||καίρῳ καθ' ἡδονὴν ἡδυτέρῳ κόσμῳ τούτῳ συντραφέντες ἀγνοίᾳ κρατηθέντες τοῦ αὐτῶν πατρικοῦ κόσμου – καλουμένων Ἑβραίων.