On Prayer 18.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: Having treated prayer in general, Origen turns to the Lord's Prayer.

Greek text · Koetschau 2:340

Αὐτάρκως δὴ ἐν τούτοις, κατὰ τὴν δεδομένην χάριν, ὡς κεχωρήκαμεν, ὑπὸ θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ (ἀλλʼ εἴθε καὶ ἐν ἁγίῳ πνεύματι, ὅπερ εἰ οὕτως ἔχει, κρινεῖτε ἐντυγχάνοντες τῇ γραφῇ) ἡμῖν εἰρημένοις, ἐξετάσαντες τὸ περὶ εὐχῆς πρόβλημα, ἤδη καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἑξῆς ἆθλον ἐλευσόμεθα, τὴν ὑπογραφεῖσαν ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου προσευχὴν, ὅσης δυνάμεως πεπλήρωται, θεωρῆσαι βουλόμενοι.

English · Claude translation

Having said enough on these matters, according to the grace given us by God through his Christ, as far as we were able (and would that it were also in the Holy Spirit; whether it is so, you will judge when you read this treatise), and having examined the problem of prayer, we shall now come to the next contest, wishing to consider the prayer outlined by the Lord and with how much power it is filled.

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 2:340 · Paul Koetschau, ed., Origenes Werke 2: Buch V–VIII gegen Celsus, Die Schrift vom Gebet, GCS 3 (Leipzig: Hinrichs, 1899), 297–403 · Greek text: P. Koetschau, Origenes Werke 2 (GCS 3, 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 3. 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 Greek text of Koetschau, GCS 3; made independently of existing English translations. No public-domain English translation exists; reviewed against the Greek.

Topics

Prayer

Cite this passage

Origen, Or. 18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/18/1/).

Plain text

Origen, Or. 18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/18/1/).