On Prayer 29.1 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Koetschau 2:381–382

„Καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμὸν, ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ“· τὸ δὲ „ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ“ παρὰ τῷ Λουκᾷ σεσιώπηται. εἰ μὴ ἀδύνατα προστάττει ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμᾶς εὔχεσθαι, ζητήσεώς μοι ἄξιον φαίνεται, πῶς κελευόμεθα, παντὸς τοῦ ἐπὶ γῆς ἀνθρώπων βίου πειρατηρίου ὄντος. προσεύχεσθαι μὴ εἰσελθεῖν „εἰς πειρασμόν.“ ᾗ γάρ ἐσμεν ἐπὶ γῆς περικείμενοι τὴν στρατευομένην σάρκα „κατὰ τοῦ πνεύματος, “ ἧς „τὸ φρόνημα“ „ἔχθρα“ ἐστὶν „εἰς θεὸν, “ μηδαμῶς δυναμένης ὑποτάσσεσθαι „τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ, “ ἐν πειρασμῷ ἐσμεν.

English · Claude translation

“And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” The words “but deliver us from the evil one” are passed over in silence in Luke. If the Savior does not command us to pray for what is impossible, it seems to me worth inquiring how we are commanded to pray not to enter “into temptation,” when the whole of human life on earth is a trial. For insofar as we are on earth, clothed with the flesh that wars “against the Spirit,” whose “mind” “is hostile to God,” being in no way able to submit “to the law of God,” we are in temptation.

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 2:381–382 · 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

Matt 6:13 · quotation, high confidence
Luke 11:4 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 26:41 · allusion, high confidence
Job 7:1 · allusion, medium confidence
Gal 5:17 · quotation, high confidence
Rom 8:7 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations and allusions are Matt 6:13, Luke 11:4, Matt 26:41, Job 7:1 (LXX), Gal 5:17, and Rom 8:7. “The evil one” (τοῦ πονηροῦ) may also be translated “evil.”

Cite this passage

Origen, Or. 29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/29/1/).

Plain text

Origen, Or. 29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/29/1/).