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On Prayer 33.2

Origen · On Prayer · ca. 233–234 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: An example of praise is Psalm 104, which glorifies God as Creator.

Greek text · Koetschau 2:401–402

τούτους δὲ τοὺς τόπους. ὡς προείπομεν, διεσπαρμένους εὕρομεν ἐν ταῖς γραφαῖς, τὸν μὲν τῆς δοξολογίας διὰ τούτων ἐν ἑκατοστῷ τρίτῳ ψαλμῷ· „κύριε, ὁ θεός μου, ὡς ἐμεγαλύνθης σφόδρα· ἐξομολόγησιν καὶ μεγαλοπρέπειαν ἐνεδύσω, ὁ ἀναβαλλόμενος φῶς ὡς ἱμάτιον, ὁ ἐκτείνων τὸν οὐρανὸν ὡσεὶ δέριν, ὁ στεγάζων ἐν ὕδασι τὰ ὑπερῷα αὐτοῦ, ὁ τιθεὶς νέφη τὴν ἐπίβασιν αὐτοῦ, ὁ περιπατῶν ἐπὶ πτερύγων ἀνέμων, ὁ ποιῶν τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ πνεύματα καὶ τοὺς λειτουργοὺς αὐτοῦ πυρὸς φλόγα, ὁ θεμελιῶν τὴν γῆν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀσφάλειαν αὐτῆς, οὐ κλιθήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος· ἄβυσσος ὡς ἱμάτιον τὸ περιβόλαιον αὐτοῦ, ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων στήσονται ὕδατα· ἀπὸ ἐπιτιμήσεώς σου φεύξονται, ἀπὸ φωνῆς βροντῆς σου δειλιάσουσι“· καὶ τὰ πλεῖστα δὲ τούτου τοῦ ψαλμοῦ δοξολογίαν περιέχει τοῦ πατρός. ἔνεστι δέ τινα ἑαυτῷ πλείονα ἀναλεγόμενον ὁρᾶν, ὡς ὁ τόπος τῆς δοξολογίας πολλαχοῦ διέσπαρται.

English · Claude translation

These topics, as we said, we have found scattered in the Scriptures: that of glorification in these words in the hundred and third psalm: “O Lord my God, how greatly you are magnified! You have clothed yourself with praise and majesty, who wraps himself in light as in a garment, who stretches out the heaven like a skin, who roofs his upper chambers with waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks on the wings of the winds, who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire, who founded the earth on its sure foundation; it shall not be moved for ever and ever. The deep, like a garment, is his covering; the waters will stand upon the mountains; at your rebuke they will flee, at the voice of your thunder they will be afraid.” And most of this psalm contains glorification of the Father. One can gather more for oneself and see how the topic of glorification is scattered in many places.

About this passage

Source
Koetschau 2:401–402 · 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
  • Ps 104:1 (103:1 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 104:2 (103:2 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 104:3 (103:3 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 104:4 (103:4 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 104:5 (103:5 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 104:6 (103:6 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 104:7 (103:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotation is Ps 104:1–7 (103:1–7 LXX; Origen gives the Greek number).

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Origen, Or. 33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/33/2/).

Plain text
Origen, Or. 33.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/33/2/).

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