On Prayer
Origen, tr. Oulton, 1954
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- Inasmuch as the greatest themes surpass man’s understanding, and transcend exceedingly …
- Probably, however, most godly and laborious Ambrose, and most modest and brave Tatiana …
- The word “prayer” (euche) occurs for the first time, so far as my observation goes, when …
- It has seemed to me not unreasonable to distinguish first between the two meanings of the…
- If it is necessary, then after this, to set forth, as you have bidden us, the plausible …
- Of things that are moved, some derive from without that which moves them, as for example …
- And with regard to prayer concerning the rising of the sun, the following may be said. …
- Moreover, it is not unreasonable to use some such illustration as this to encourage the …
- What we have said must be proved from the divine Scriptures on this manner. He who prays …
- The foregoing has been said on the supposition that even if no other result followed our …
- Not only does the high priest pray along with those that genuinely pray, but also the …
- Moreover, I hold that the words of the prayer of the saints are filled with power, …
- Now if Jesus prays, and does not pray in vain, obtaining through prayer what he asks for …
- Having thus expounded the benefits which come to the saints from prayer, let us go on to …
- If we understand what prayer is, perhaps we ought not to pray to anyone born [of woman], …
- Hearing, then, Jesus saying these things, let us pray to God through him, all saying the …
- It is not to be wondered at if to all alike who receive, so to speak, the bodies that …
- Enough has been said by us in the foregoing examination of the problem of prayer, …
- Since, as we said above, he who prays must first be settled and disposed in a certain …
- If there is a difference between the Church and the synagogue (the Church properly so …
- In praying, however, do “not” let “us use vain repetitions,” but rather let us speak to …
- Our Father which art in heaven. It is worth while examining with unusual care the Old …
- But when “the Father” of the saints is said to be “in heaven,” we are not to suppose that…
- “Hallowed be thy name.” He who prays these words either shows that the object of his …
- “Thy kingdom come.” If “the kingdom of God,” according to the word of our Lord and …
- “Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.” Luke passes over these words in silence, …
- “Give us this day our daily bread,” or, as Luke has it, “Give us day by day our daily …
- “And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors”; or, as Luke, “And …
- “And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” But the words “But …
- It seems to me that Luke in the words: “Bring us not into temptation” has virtually …
- After this it does not seem to me to be out of place, in order to complete our discussion…
- A few words also must now be said about the direction towards which he who prays should …
- Before bringing this treatise to an end, I think I ought to say something about the …
- Thus, according to my ability, I have wrestled with the problem of prayer, and the prayer…