On Prayer 33.5

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

Summary: An example of petition comes from Psalm 28.

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Greek text · Koetschau 2:402

τῶν δὲ αἰτήσεων ἐν εἰκοστῷ ἑβδόμῳ ψαλμῷ· „μὴ συνελκύσῃς με μετὰ ἁμαρτωλῶν, καὶ μετὰ ἐργαζομένων ἀδικίαν μὴ συναπολέσῃς με, “ καὶ εἴ τι τούτοις ὅμοιον.

English · Claude translation

Of requests, in the twenty-seventh psalm: “Do not drag me away with sinners, and do not destroy me with those who work iniquity,” and anything like these.

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Source

Koetschau 2:402 · 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 28:3 (27:3 LXX) · quotation, high confidence

Topics

Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

The quotation is Ps 28:3 (27:3 LXX; Origen gives the Greek number).

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Origen, Or. 33.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/33/5/).

Plain text

Origen, Or. 33.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/33/5/).

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