Exhortation to Martyrdom 16 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Koetschau 1:15

Ἅμα δὲ καὶ τήρει τὸ σεμνὸν τῆς γραφῆς πολυπλασιασμὸν καὶ ἑκατονταπλασιασμὸν ὑπισχνουμένης ἀδελφῶν καὶ τέκνων καὶ γονέων καὶ ἀγρῶν καὶ οἰκιῶν· οὐ συγκατηρίθμηται δὲ τούτοις γυνή. οὐ γὰρ εἴρηται· πᾶς ὅστις ἀφῆκεν ἀδελφοὺς ἢ ἀδελφὰς ἢ γονεῖς ἢ τέκνα ἢ ἀγροὺς ἢ οἰκίας ἢ γυναῖκα ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματός μου, πολλαπλασίονα λήψεται· „ἐν γὰρ τῇ ἀναστάσει τῶν νεκρῶν οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίσκονται, ἀλλʼ εἰσὶν ὡς οἱ ἄγγελοι οἱ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς.“

English · Claude translation

At the same time note the dignity of Scripture, which promises the multiplying, even a hundredfold, of brothers and children and parents and fields and houses; but a wife is not counted among them. For it is not said, “Everyone who has left brothers or sisters or parents or children or fields or houses or wife for the sake of my name will receive many times as much”; for “in the resurrection of the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven.”

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 1:15 · Paul Koetschau, ed., Origenes Werke 1: Die Schrift vom Martyrium, Buch I–IV gegen Celsus, GCS 2 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1899), 1–47 · Greek text: P. Koetschau, Origenes Werke 1 (GCS 2, 1899), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Koetschau, GCS 2. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; the problem in this passage is discussed in the notes.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Koetschau, GCS 2; made independently of existing English translations. No public-domain English translation exists; reviewed against the Greek.

Scripture

Matt 19:29 · quotation, high confidence
Matt 22:30 · quotation, high confidence
Mark 12:25 · allusion, medium confidence

Topics

Marriage, Martyrdom, Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

Origen follows the text of Matt 19:29 that lacks “wife” (some manuscripts of Matthew, and Luke 18:29, include it). The final quotation is Matt 22:30 (compare Mark 12:25).

Cite this passage

Origen, Mart. 16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-exhortatio/16/).

Plain text

Origen, Mart. 16 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-exhortatio/16/).