On the Lord's Prayer 21 · Sophia Scriptura

Latin text · CSEL 3.1:282–283

Neque enim deesse cottidianus cibus potest iusto, cum scriptum sit: non occidet Dominus fame animam iustam, et iterum: iuuenior fui et senui et non uidi iustum derelictum neque semen eius quaerens panem, item Dominus promittat et dicat: nolite cogitare dicentes: quid edemus aut quid bibemus aut quid uestiemur? haec enim nationes quaerunt. scit autem pater uester quia horum omnium indigetis. quaerite primo regnum et iustitiam Dei, et haec omnia adponentur uobis. quaerentibus regnum et iustitiam Dei omnia promittit adponi. nam cum Dei sint omnia, habenti Deum nihil deerit, si Deo ipse non desit. sic Danieli in leonum lacum iussu regis incluso prandium diuinitus procuratur et inter feras esurientes et parcentes homo Dei pascitur. sic alitur Helias in fuga et solitudine coruis ministrantibus et uolucribus cibum sibi adportantibus in persecutione nutritur. adque — o humanae malitiae detestanda crudelitas! – ferae parcunt, aues pascunt, et homines insidiantur et saeuiunt!

English · Claude translation

For daily food cannot be lacking to the righteous man, since it is written: "The Lord will not kill the righteous soul with hunger"; and again: "I have been young and have grown old, and I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread"; and the Lord likewise promises and says: "Do not be anxious, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the nations seek these things. But your Father knows that you need all these things. Seek first the kingdom and righteousness of God, and all these things will be added to you." He promises that all things will be added to those who seek the kingdom and righteousness of God. For since all things are God's, nothing will be lacking to him who has God, if he himself is not lacking to God. So a meal was divinely provided for Daniel when he was shut up in the lions' den by the king's command, and the man of God was fed among wild beasts that were hungry and yet spared him. So Elijah was fed in his flight and solitude, the ravens serving him, and in persecution he was nourished by birds bringing him food. And (O detestable cruelty of human malice!) the wild beasts spare, the birds feed, and men lie in wait and rage!

About this passage

Source

CSEL 3.1:282–283 · Wilhelm von Hartel, ed., S. Thasci Caecili Cypriani Opera omnia, Pars 1, CSEL 3.1 (Vienna: Gerold, 1868), 265–294 · Latin text: W. von Hartel (CSEL 3.1, 1868), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in CSEL 3.1. 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 Latin text of CSEL 3.1; made independently of existing English translations.

Compare

Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 5 (1886) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Scripture

Prov 10:3 · quotation, high confidence
Ps 37:25 (36:25 Vulg.) · quotation, high confidence
Matt 6:31–33 · quotation, high confidence
1 Kgs 17:6 · allusion, high confidence

Extrabiblical texts

Bel 33–39 (Bel and the Dragon) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Prayer, Persecution

Notes

Translation notes

The quotations are Prov 10:3, Ps 37:25 (36:25 Vulg.), and Matt 6:31–33. Daniel's meal in the lions' den is Bel 33–39 (Dan 14:31–39 Vulg.); Elijah is 1 Kgs 17:6.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: words run together.): scriptumsit → scriptum sit.

Cite this passage

Cyprian, Dom. or. 21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/cyprian-dominica-oratione/21/).

Plain text

Cyprian, Dom. or. 21 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/cyprian-dominica-oratione/21/).