On Prayer 27.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Koetschau 2:364–365

ἐὰν δέ τις πρὸς ταῦτα ἀνθυποφέρῃ λέγων μὴ ἂν αὐτὸν διδάσκειν ὡς περὶ ἑτέρου ὄντος ἄρτου τοῦ ἐπιουσίου αἰτεῖν, ἀκουέτω ὅτι καὶ ἐν τῷ κατὰ Ἰωάννην ὅπου μὲν ὡς περὶ ἑτέρου τινὸς παρʼ αὐτὸν διαλέγεται, ὅπου δὲ ὡς αὐτὸς ὁ ἄρτος ὤν· ὡς μὲν περὶ ἑτέρου διὰ τούτων· „Μωϋσῆς δέδωκεν ὑμῖν τὸν ἄρτον ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, “ „οὐ“ „τὸν ἀληθινὸν, “ „ἀλλʼ ὁ πατήρ μου δίδωσιν ὑμῖν τὸν ἄρτον ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὸν ἀληθινόν“· ὡς δὲ περὶ αὐτοῦ φησι πρὸς εἰπόντας αὐτῷ· „πάντοτε δὸς ἡμῖν τὸν ἄρτον τοῦτον, “ „ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ἄρτος τῆς ζωῆς· ὁ ἐρχόμενος πρός με οὐ μὴ πεινάσῃ. καὶ ὁ πιστεύων εἰς ἐμὲ οὐ μὴ διψήσῃ πώποτε.“ καὶ μετʼ ὀλίγα· „ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ἄρτος (ὁ ζῶν) ὁ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς· ἐάν τις φάγῃ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ ἄρτου, ζήσει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα· καὶ ὁ ἄρτος δὲ, ὃν ἐγὼ δώσω, ἡ σάρξ μου ἐστὶν, ἣν ἐγὼ δώσω ὑπὲρ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου ζωῆς.“

English · Claude translation

And if someone objects to this, saying that he would not teach us to ask for the daily bread as though it were something other than himself, let him hear that in the Gospel according to John he speaks sometimes as of something other than himself, and sometimes as being himself the bread. As of another, in these words: “Moses gave you the bread from heaven,” “not” “the true bread,” “but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.” But as of himself he says to those who said to him, “Give us this bread always”: “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.” And a little after: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give is my flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 2:364–365 · 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.

Scripture

John 6:32 · quotation, high confidence
John 6:34 · quotation, high confidence
John 6:35 · quotation, high confidence
John 6:51 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer, Christology

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are John 6:32, 6:34–35, and 6:51.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (wrong breathing in the digital text): ὀ πιστεύων → ὁ πιστεύων.

Cite this passage

Origen, Or. 27.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/27/3/).

Plain text

Origen, Or. 27.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/27/3/).