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On Prayer 33.4

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

Summary: Examples of confession come from the Psalms.

Greek text · Koetschau 2:402

τῶν δὲ ἐξομολογήσεων παράδειγμα· „ἀπὸ πασῶν τῶν ἀνομιῶν μου ῥῦσαί με, “ καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις· „προσώζεσαν καὶ ἐσάπησαν οἱ μώλωπές μου ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς ἀφροσύνης μου· ἐταλαιπώρησα καὶ κατεκάμφθην ἕως τέλους, ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν σκυθρωπάζων ἐπορευόμην.“

English · Claude translation

An example of confession: “Deliver me from all my transgressions”; and elsewhere: “My wounds have grown foul and festered because of my folly; I have been wretched and bowed down utterly; all the day I went about mourning.”

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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 39:8 (38:9 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 38:5 (37:6 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
  • Ps 38:6 (37:7 LXX) · quotation, high confidence
Topics
Prayer

Notes

Translation notes

  • The quotations are Ps 39:8 (38:9 LXX) and Ps 38:5–6 (37:6–7 LXX).

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Origen, Or. 33.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/33/4/).

Plain text
Origen, Or. 33.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/origen-oratione/33/4/).

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