On Prayer 27.17 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Koetschau 2:375

καὶ ταῦτα δέ μοι δοκεῖ ἀναγκαιότατα ἐξητάσθαι, ἵνα τό τε „σήμερον“ νοηθῇ καὶ τὸ „καθʼ ἡμέραν, “ ὅτε „τὸν ἐπιούσιον“ „ἄρτον“ δοθῆναι „ἡμῖν“ ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ εὐχόμεθα. εἰ κατὰ τελευταῖον δὲ βιβλίον πρότερον ἐξετάζομεν τὸ „ἡμῶν, “ ἐπεὶ λέγεται οὐχί· „τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον“ ἀλλὰ „τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δίδου ἡμῖν καθʼ ἡμέραν, “ ὅμως γε ἐξεταστέον, πῶς „ἡμῶν“ ἐστιν ὁ ἄρτος οὗτος. διδάσκει δὴ ὁ ἀπόστολος ὅτι „εἴτε ζωὴ εἴτε θάνατος εἴτε ἐνεστῶτα εἴτε μέλλοντα, πάντα“ τῶν ἁγίων ἐστί· (περὶ οὗ) οὐκ ἀναγκαῖον ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος λέγειν.

English · Claude translation

These things seemed to me most necessary to examine, so that both “today” and “each day” might be understood, when we pray that “the daily” “bread” be given “to us” by his Father. And if, according to the last book, we examine “our” first—since it is said not, “Give us today our daily bread,” but, “Give us each day our daily bread”—still we must examine how this bread is “ours.” The apostle teaches that “whether life or death or things present or things to come, all” belong to the saints; about which it is not necessary to speak at present.

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 2:375 · 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; 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 3; made independently of existing English translations. No public-domain English translation exists; reviewed against the Greek.

Scripture

Matt 6:11 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 11:3 · quotation, high confidence
1 Cor 3:22 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Matt 6:11, Luke 11:3, and 1 Cor 3:22. The phrase “according to the last book” (κατὰ τελευταῖον δὲ βιβλίον) is obscure, perhaps referring to the Gospel of Luke as the later of the two; the text may be corrupt.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray punctuation mark in the digital text): „τὸν· ἐπιούσιον“ → „τὸν ἐπιούσιον“.

Cite this passage

Origen, Or. 27.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/27/17/).

Plain text

Origen, Or. 27.17 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/27/17/).