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On Prayer 22.5

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

Summary: “Our Father in heaven” should be said by our whole life, lived as citizens of heaven, not only at set times of prayer.

Greek text · Koetschau 2:349

μὴ λέξεις τοίνυν νομίσωμεν διδάσκεσθαι λέγειν ἡμᾶς ἔν τινι ἀποτεταγμένῳ τοῦ εὔχεσθαι καιρῷ· ἀλλʼ εἰ συνίεμεν τῶν ἡμῖν προεξετασθέντων εἰς τὸ „ἀδιαλείπτως“ προσεύχεσθαι, πᾶς ἡμῶν ὁ βίος „ἀδιαλείπτως“ προσευχομένων λεγέτω τό· „πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, “ „τὸ πολίτευμα“ ἔχων οὐδαμῶς ἐπὶ γῆς ἀλλὰ παντὶ τρόπῳ „ἐν οὐρανοῖς, “ θρόνοις τυγχάνουσι τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τὸ ἱδρῦσθαι τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ βασιλείαν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς φοροῦσι „τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου“ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο γενομένοις ἐπουρανίοις.

English · Claude translation

Let us not think, then, that we are taught to say words at some time set apart for prayer; but if we understand what we examined earlier about praying “without ceasing,” let our whole life, as we pray “without ceasing,” say, “Our Father in heaven,” having its “citizenship” not at all on earth but in every way “in heaven,” which are the thrones of God, because the kingdom of God is established in all who bear “the image of the heavenly” and for this reason have become heavenly.

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Source
Koetschau 2:349 · 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.
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Translation notes

  • The allusions are 1 Thess 5:17, Phil 3:20, and 1 Cor 15:49.

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Origen, Or. 22.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/22/5/).

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Origen, Or. 22.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/22/5/).

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