On Prayer 11.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Greek text · Koetschau 2:324

ὥσπερ οὖν ταῦτα οὐ κατὰ συντυχίαν νομιστέον γίνεσθαι ὅτε γίνεται. τοῦ ἠριθμηκότος πάσας τὰς τρίχας τῆς τῶν ἁγίων κεφαλῆς ἁρμονίως συναγαγόντος παρὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς εὐχῆς τὸν ὑπηρέτην ἐσόμενον τῷ δεομένῳ τῆς εὐποιΐας τῆς ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ εἰσακούοντα. τῷ πιστῶς δεδεημένῳ· οὕτως ὑποληπτέον συνάγεσθαί ποτε τῶν ἐπισκοπούντων καὶ λειτουργούντων τῷ θεῷ ἀγγέλων παρουσίαν τῷδέ τινι τῶν εὐχομένων, ἵνα συμπνεύσωσιν οἷς ὁ εὐχόμενος ἠξίωσεν. ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ ἑκάστου ἄγγελος, „καὶ τῶν“ ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ „μικρῶν, “ „διὰ παντὸς“ βλέπων „τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ πατρὸς“ „τοῦ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς“ καὶ ἐνορῶν τοῦ κτίσαντος ἡμᾶς τὴν θειότητα, συνεύχεταί τε ἡμῖν καὶ συμπράττει ἐν οἷς δυνατόν ἐστι περὶ ὧν εὐχόμεθα.

English · Claude translation

Just as, then, we must not think that these things happen by chance when they happen, since he who has numbered all the hairs of the saints' heads harmoniously brings together, at the time of the prayer, the one who will serve the one needing his help and who will hear the one who has asked faithfully; so we must suppose that the presence of the angels who oversee and minister to God is sometimes brought together to a particular person who prays, so that they may join in accomplishing what the one who prays has asked. And indeed the angel of each one, even of “the little ones” in the church, who “always” beholds “the face of the Father” “who is in heaven” and looks upon the divinity of our Creator, prays with us and works with us, as far as possible, in the things for which we pray.

About this passage

Source

Koetschau 2:324 · 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 10:30 · allusion, high confidence
Matt 18:10 · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations and allusions are Matt 10:30 and Matt 18:10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (the letters marked unreadable in the digital text are certain from the context): γίνεσθα(??)ὶ → γίνεσθαι.

Cite this passage

Origen, Or. 11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/11/5/).

Plain text

Origen, Or. 11.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/11/5/).