On Prayer 29.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Koetschau 2:382–383

πῶς οὖν κελεύει ἡμᾶς ὁ σωτὴρ εὔχεσθαι μὴ εἰσελθεῖν „εἰς πειρασμὸν, “ πειράζοντός πως πάντας τοῦ θεοῦ; „μνήσθητε“ γὰρ. φησὶν ἡ Ἰουδαία [εἰ] οὐ πρὸς τοὺς τότε πρεσβυτέρους μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸς πάντας τοὺς ἐντυγχάνοντας αὐτῆς τῇ γραφῇ, „ὅσα ἐποίησε μετὰ Ἀβραὰμ, καὶ ὅσα ἐπείρασε τὸν Ἰσαὰκ, καὶ ὅσα ἐγένετο τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ τῆς Συρίας. ποιμαίνοντι Λάβαν τὰ πρόβατα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ· οὐ γὰρ καθὼς ἐκείνους ἐπύρωσεν εἰς ἐτασμὸν καρδίας αὐτῶν, καὶ ἡμᾶς ἐκδικεῖ ὁ εἰς νουθέτησιν μαστιγῶν κύριος τοὺς ἐγγίζοντας αὐτῷ.“ καὶ ὡς καθολικὸν δὲ ἀποφαίνεται περὶ πάντων δικαίων ὁ μὲν Δαυῒδ λέγων· „πολλαὶ αἱ θλίψεις τῶν δικαίων, “ ὁ δὲ ἀπόστολος ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσιν· „ὅτι διὰ πολλῶν θλίψεων δεῖ ἡμᾶς εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ θεοῦ.“

English · Claude translation

How, then, does the Savior command us to pray not to enter “into temptation,” since God in some way tests all? For the Jewish woman says, not only to the elders of that time but also to all who read her book: “Remember what he did with Abraham, and how he tested Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, as he kept the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother. For he has not tried us with fire, as he did them, to search their hearts, nor has he taken vengeance on us; but the Lord scourges those who draw near to him, to admonish them.” And David declares it as a general rule about all the righteous, saying, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous,” and the apostle in the Acts: “that through many afflictions we must enter the kingdom of God.”

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 2:382–383 · 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

Ps 34:19 (33:20 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Acts 14:22 · quotation, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Jdt 8:25–27 (Judith) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

“The Jewish woman” is Judith (Ἰουδαία is also the meaning of her name). The quotations are Jdt 8:25–27, Ps 34:19 (33:20 LXX), and Acts 14:22. The editor deletes εἰ (“if”) before “not only.”

Cite this passage

Origen, Or. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/29/3/).

Plain text

Origen, Or. 29.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/29/3/).