On the Lord's Prayer 5 · Sophia Scriptura

Latin text · CSEL 3.1:269

Quod Anna in primo Regnorum libro ecclesiae typum portans custodit et seruat, quae Deum non clamosa petitione sed tacite et modeste intra ipsas pectoris latebras precabatur. loquebatur prece occulta sed manifesta fide, loquebatur non uoce sed corde, quia sic Dominum sciebat audire, et inpetrauit efficaciter quod petit, quia fideliter postulauit. declarat scriptura diuina quae dicit: loquebatur in corde suo et labia eius mouebantur et uox eius non audiebatur, et exaudiuit eam Dominus. item legimus in psalmis: dicite in cordibus uestris et in cubilibus uestris conpungimini. per Hieremiam quoque haec eadem Spiritus sanctus suggerit et docet dicens: in sensu autem tibi debet adorari, Domine.

English · Claude translation

This Hannah, in the first book of Kingdoms, bearing a figure of the church, keeps and observes: she prayed to God not with a clamorous petition but silently and modestly within the very recesses of her heart. She spoke with a hidden prayer but with manifest faith; she spoke not with her voice but with her heart, because she knew that so the Lord hears; and she effectively obtained what she asked, because she asked faithfully. The divine Scripture declares it, saying: "She spoke in her heart, and her lips moved, and her voice was not heard, and the Lord heard her." Likewise we read in the psalms: "Speak in your hearts, and be pierced with sorrow in your beds." Through Jeremiah too the Holy Spirit suggests and teaches these same things, saying: "But in the mind, O Lord, you ought to be worshipped."

About this passage

Source

CSEL 3.1:269 · Wilhelm von Hartel, ed., S. Thasci Caecili Cypriani Opera omnia, Pars 1, CSEL 3.1 (Vienna: Gerold, 1868), 265–294 · Latin text: W. von Hartel (CSEL 3.1, 1868), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in CSEL 3.1. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Latin text of CSEL 3.1; made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

1 Sam 1:13 · quotation, high confidence
Ps 4:4 (4:5 Vulg.) · quotation, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Ep Jer 6 (Letter of Jeremiah) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

"The first book of Kingdoms" is 1 Samuel (1 Kgdms LXX). The quotations are 1 Sam 1:13 (with an addition), Ps 4:4 (4:5 Vulg.), and Ep Jer 6 (Bar 6:5 Vulg.), which Cyprian cites as Jeremiah.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: stray period.): et. inpetrauit → et inpetrauit.

Cite this passage

Cyprian, Dom. or. 5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/cyprian-dominica-oratione/5/).

Plain text

Cyprian, Dom. or. 5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/cyprian-dominica-oratione/5/).