# Prayer 2 - Author: Anonymous - Latin title: *Oratio II* - Date: uncertain (disputed) - Source: Wilhelm von Hartel, ed., S. Thasci Caecili Cypriani Opera omnia, Pars 3, CSEL 3.3 (Vienna: Gerold, 1871) (Latin text: W. von Hartel (CSEL 3.3, 1871), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0) - Translation: Claude, from the original text, unless a passage says otherwise; each passage below gives the translator - Work page: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/ - Passages: 6 ## Prayer 2 1 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-1 - Source: CSEL 3.3:146–147 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The second prayer ascribed to Cyprian opens by invoking the God of the patriarchs, the Judge and Giver of life, and asks to be freed from this mortal world. ### Latin text Domine sancte pater hagios Deus, ad te legaui animam meam, Deus meus, quis enim maior est? tibi semper gratias et laudem referam Deus Abraham, Deus Isaac, Deus Iacob, Deus patrum nostrorum, Deus prophetarum, Deus apostolorum, Deus martyrum, qui fuisti ante mundi dispositionem, Deus uiuorum, qui uenturus es iudicare uiuos et mortuos: qui es Deus uerax, qui sedes super Cherubim et Seraphim, qui prospicis abyssos, qui uides cuncta priusquam nascantur, qui habes potestatem mortificare et iterum uiuificare, qui habes potestatem de arido uiride facere. tu omnium Deus dominator, libera me de hoc saeculo mortali, exaudi me orantem, sicut exaudisti filios Israel de terra Aegypti, et non tibi crediderunt nec famulo tuo Moysi. ### English translation (Claude) Lord, holy Father, God (hagios), to you I have committed my soul, my God; for who is greater? To you I will always give thanks and praise, God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, God of our fathers, God of the prophets, God of the apostles, God of the martyrs, who were before the ordering of the world, God of the living, who are coming to judge the living and the dead; who are the true God, who sit upon the Cherubim and Seraphim, who look upon the depths, who see all things before they are born, who have power to put to death and to give life again, who have power to make green from dry. You, God and Ruler of all, free me from this mortal world; hear me as I pray, as you heard the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, though they did not believe you or your servant Moses. ### Scripture references - Ps 25:1 (24:1 LXX): allusion, medium confidence - Exod 3:6: allusion, high confidence - Ps 80:1 (79:2 LXX): allusion, medium confidence - Deut 32:39: allusion, high confidence - 1 Sam 2:6: allusion, medium confidence - Ezek 17:24: allusion, high confidence - Num 14:11: allusion, medium confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Pr Azar 32 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men): allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The second of two prayers falsely ascribed to Cyprian (CSEL 3.3). Allusions: Ps 25:1 (Ps 24:1 LXX); Exod 3:6; Ps 80:1; Dan 3:55 (Prayer of Azariah); Deut 32:39 (1 Sam 2:6); Ezek 17:24; Exod 3:7, 14:31; Num 14:11. ### Citation (SBL) Ps.-Cyprian, Orat. 2 1 (CSEL 3.3:146–147; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-1). ## Prayer 2 2 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-2 - Source: CSEL 3.3:147–149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The petitioner confesses his sins and asks God to hear him as he heard Jonah, the Ninevites, David, the three young men, Daniel, Tobit and Sarah, Susanna, Hezekiah, and Thecla. ### Latin text Vae peccatis meis, Domine. cum te leuaueris confringere terram, sub qua fissura petrarum me absconsurus sum ab ante uirtutem tuam aut cui monti dicturus sum: cade super me, et cui colli dicam: tege me ab ante metum Domini mei, cum te leuaueris confringere terram? rogo te, Domine, subueni mihi: noli secundum actum meum me iudicare: nihil enim in praeceptis tuis parui. exaudi me orantem. sicut exaudisti Ionam de uentre ceti, sic et me exaudias et eicias me de morte ad uitam. sicut Niniuitae induerunt se cinerem et cilicium et paenitentiam egerunt, exomologesin facientis ante conspectum tuum pro uniuersis peccatis meis, qui es amator paenitentiae, miserere mei. sed et Dauid dicit: Domine propter nomen tuum dele peccatum meum. et ego deprecor maiestatem tuam ut deleas uniuersa peccata mea, exaudi me orantem, sicut audisti tres pueros de camino ignis ardentis Ananiam Azariam et Misael: et misisti angelum tuum cum roribus tuis, et confusus est Nabuchodonosor praepositus regni: quoniam tu es rex regnantium et dominus dominantium, qui solus habes inmortalitatem et lucem habitas inaccessibilem, quem nemo hominum uidit nec uidere potest. exaudi me orantem, sicut exaudisti Danielum de lacu leonum: et misisti Abbacum prophetam, et adtulit ei prandium et dixit: prande prandium, quod tibi misit Deus. et Daniel dixit: non derelinquit Dominus quaerentes se. exaudi me orantem, sicut exaudisti Tobi et Sarram dum orarent in atrio domus suae: tunc obtulit pro eis Raphael angelus orationem eorum: sic et tu exaudias preces meas et mittas ad aulam sanctam tuam orationem meam, et continuo mittas angelum sanctam tuum, qui deleat uniuersa commissa mea, sicut deluisti spiritum inmundum a Sarra filia Baguel: et inlumines cor meum, sicut inluminasti oculos Tobi. exaudi me orantem. sicut exaudisti Susannam de inter manus seniorum, sic et me liberes de hoc saeculo mortali, quia tu es amator purae conscientiae. exaudi me orantem, sicut exaudisti Ezechiam regem Iudaeorum et deluisti ab eo infirmitatem carnis eius: sic et me liberes, et augeas mihi ad fidem, sicut illi ad uitam annos quindecim addidisti. sic et me liberes de hoc saeculo, sicut liberasti Teclam de medio amphitheatro, liberes me ab omni infirmitate carnis meae. ### English translation (Claude) Woe for my sins, Lord! When you rise up to shatter the earth, under what cleft of the rocks shall I hide from before your power? Or to what mountain shall I say, “Fall on me,” and to what hill shall I say, “Cover me from before the fear of my Lord,” when you rise up to shatter the earth? I beg you, Lord, help me; do not judge me according to my deeds, for I have obeyed nothing in your commandments. Hear me as I pray. As you heard Jonah from the belly of the whale, so hear me too and cast me out from death to life. As the Ninevites clothed themselves in ashes and sackcloth and did penance, so, as I make confession before your sight for all my sins, you who are a lover of repentance, have mercy on me. David too says: “Lord, for your name's sake blot out my sin.” And I pray your majesty to blot out all my sins. Hear me as I pray, as you heard the three young men, Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, from the furnace of burning fire, and sent your angel with your dew, and Nebuchadnezzar, the ruler of the kingdom, was confounded; for you are King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone have immortality and dwell in unapproachable light, whom no human being has seen or can see. Hear me as I pray, as you heard Daniel from the lions' den, and sent the prophet Habakkuk, and he brought him a meal and said, “Eat the meal that God has sent you.” And Daniel said, “The Lord does not forsake those who seek him.” Hear me as I pray, as you heard Tobit and Sarah while they prayed in the court of their houses; then the angel Raphael offered their prayer for them. So may you too hear my prayers and send my prayer to your holy court, and at once send your holy angel to blot out all my offenses, as you blotted out the unclean spirit from Sarah, daughter of Raguel; and enlighten my heart, as you enlightened the eyes of Tobit. Hear me as I pray. As you heard Susanna from the hands of the elders, so free me too from this mortal world, for you are a lover of a pure conscience. Hear me as I pray, as you heard Hezekiah, king of the Jews, and took away from him the sickness of his flesh; so free me too and add to my faith, as you added fifteen years to his life. So free me too from this world, as you freed Thecla from the midst of the amphitheater; free me from every sickness of my flesh. ### Scripture references - Isa 2:19: allusion, high confidence - Hos 10:8: quotation, high confidence - Luke 23:30: quotation, medium confidence - Ps 143:2 (142:2 LXX): allusion, medium confidence - Jonah 2:1: allusion, high confidence - Jonah 3:5: allusion, high confidence - Ps 25:11 (24:11 LXX): quotation, medium confidence - Dan 3:25: allusion, high confidence - 1 Tim 6:15: quotation, high confidence - 1 Tim 6:16: quotation, high confidence - Dan 6:22: allusion, high confidence - 2 Kgs 20:6: allusion, high confidence - Isa 38:5: allusion, medium confidence ### Extrabiblical texts - Pr Azar 26 (Prayer of Azariah and Song of the Three Young Men): allusion, high confidence - Bel 33 (Bel and the Dragon): quotation, high confidence - Tob 3:16 (Tobit): allusion, high confidence - Sus 42 (Susanna): allusion, high confidence - Acts Paul 34 (Acts of Paul): allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The opening words are garbled in the digital text (Vaa pocestis) and corrected by sense. Allusions and quotations: Isa 2:19–21; Hos 10:8 (Luke 23:30); Ps 143:2; Jonah 2:1–10, 3:5–10; Ps 25:11 (Ps 24:11 LXX), quoted loosely; Dan 3 with the angel and the dew of the Prayer of Azariah 26–27; 1 Tim 6:15–16; Dan 6:22; Bel and the Dragon 33–39 (Habakkuk); Tob 3:1–17, 11:13–14, 12:12; Susanna 42–62; 2 Kgs 20:1–6 (Isa 38:5); Acts of Paul and Thecla (the amphitheater at Antioch). ### Citation (SBL) Ps.-Cyprian, Orat. 2 2 (CSEL 3.3:147–149; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-2). ## Prayer 2 3 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-3 - Source: CSEL 3.3:149 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The petitioner thanks the Father for sending his Son, born of the Virgin by the Holy Spirit, to free us from death. ### Latin text Te deprecor pater omnipotens, qui in fine temporum commemoratus es nostri: misisti nobis Iesum Christum filium tuum Deum et Dominum nostrum, natum de Maria uirgine de spiritu sancto, adnuntiante Gabrielo angelo, per quem nos liberasti de periculo mortis inminentis. ### English translation (Claude) I pray you, almighty Father, who at the end of times remembered us: you sent us Jesus Christ your Son, our God and Lord, born of the Virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit, as the angel Gabriel announced, through whom you freed us from the danger of impending death. ### Scripture references - Gal 4:4: allusion, medium confidence - Luke 1:35: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions: Gal 4:4; Luke 1:26–35. ### Citation (SBL) Ps.-Cyprian, Orat. 2 3 (CSEL 3.3:149; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-3). ## Prayer 2 4 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-4 - Source: CSEL 3.3:149–150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The petitioner invokes the Son of God through his miracles and his work in creation. ### Latin text Te deprecor filium Dei uiui, qui fecisti tam magnalia: in Cana Galilaeae de aqua uinum fecisti, propter filios Israel qui caecis oculos aperuisti, qui surdos audire fecisti, qui paralyticos ad sua membra reuocasti, qui soluisti linguas blaesorum, a daemonio uexatos sanasti, clodos currere fecisti uelut ceruos, mulierem a profluuio sanguinis liberasti, mortuos suscitasti, super aquas pedibus ambulasti, [qui Petro labenti manum tradidisti] qui mare fundasti et terminum ei posuisti, qui dixisti: hucusque uenies et te hic confringes in tua uirtute. te deprecor filium summi Dei propter uniuersa commissa mea, qui es in caelis filius in patre et pater in filio in sempiternum, qui sedes super Cherubim et Seraphim sedes honoris tui. ### English translation (Claude) I pray you, Son of the living God, who did such mighty works: in Cana of Galilee you made wine from water; for the sake of the children of Israel you opened the eyes of the blind, made the deaf hear, restored the paralyzed to their limbs, loosed the tongues of stammerers, healed those tormented by a demon, made the lame run like deer, freed the woman from the flow of blood, raised the dead, walked on the waters with your feet; who founded the sea and set its bound, who said, “Thus far you shall come, and here you shall break in your strength.” I pray you, Son of the most high God, on account of all my offenses, you who are in heaven, the Son in the Father and the Father in the Son for ever, who sit upon the Cherubim and Seraphim, the seat of your honor. ### Scripture references - John 2:9: allusion, high confidence - Matt 11:5: allusion, high confidence - Isa 35:6: allusion, high confidence - Mark 5:29: allusion, high confidence - Matt 14:25: allusion, high confidence - Job 38:11: quotation, high confidence - John 14:10: allusion, medium confidence ### Translation notes - The editor deletes the clause “who gave your hand to Peter as he sank”. Allusions: John 2:1–11; Matt 11:5; Isa 35:6 (lame leaping like deer); Mark 7:32–35; Mark 5:25–34; Matt 14:25; Job 38:8–11 (quoted loosely); John 14:10. ### Citation (SBL) Ps.-Cyprian, Orat. 2 4 (CSEL 3.3:149–150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-4). ## Prayer 2 5 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-5 - Source: CSEL 3.3:150 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The petitioner recalls the angels' praise and Christ's promises about prayer, and declares himself ready to shed his blood for Christ's name. ### Latin text Tibi adstant angeli et archangeli numerus inaestimabilis, timentes et pauentes honorem et uirtutem tuam, clamantes uoce magna dicentes: sanctus sanctus sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth. tu ipse nobis testamentum fecisti et pollicitus es dicens: petite et accipietis, quaerite et inuenietis, pulsate et aperietur uobis. quodcumque a patre meo petieritis in nomine meo, ego in tuo nomine peto ut accipiam. ego quaero ut inueniam, ego pulso ut aperiatur mihi. paratus sum propter nomen tuum uictimam sanguinis effundere et quodcumque tormentum sustinere. tu es adiutor meus: defende me ab aduersaria parte, angelus tuus lucis protegat me, quoniam tu dixisti: quidquid credentes petieritis per orationem, dabitur uobis. ### English translation (Claude) Before you stand angels and archangels, a number beyond reckoning, fearing and trembling at your honor and power, crying with a loud voice and saying, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts.” You yourself made a covenant with us and promised, saying, “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. Whatever you ask of my Father in my name …” In your name I ask, that I may receive; I seek, that I may find; I knock, that it may be opened to me. I am ready for your name's sake to pour out the sacrifice of my blood and to endure any torment. You are my helper: defend me from the adversary's side; let your angel of light protect me, for you have said, “Whatever you ask in prayer, believing, will be given to you.” ### Scripture references - Isa 6:3: quotation, high confidence - Dan 7:10: allusion, medium confidence - Matt 7:7: quotation, high confidence - John 16:23: quotation, high confidence - Matt 21:22: quotation, high confidence - Ps 54:4 (53:6 LXX): allusion, low confidence ### Translation notes - Quotations: Isa 6:3; Matt 7:7; John 16:23 (incomplete in the text); Matt 21:22. Allusions: Dan 7:10; Ps 54:4. ### Citation (SBL) Ps.-Cyprian, Orat. 2 5 (CSEL 3.3:150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-5). ## Prayer 2 6 - URL: https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-6 - Source: CSEL 3.3:150–152 - Translation: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 Summary: The prayer ends by confessing Christ's passion, descent, resurrection, and return, and asks for victory over the devil and deliverance from eternal punishment. ### Latin text Omnis homo mendax, tu solus Deus uerax. sicut repromisisti, potes dare Domine, reuela mihi sacramentum tuum caeleste, ut dignus sim faciem sanctorum tuorum uidere. spiritus sanctus in me operetur uirtutem: quoniam tibi me spopondi seruire omnibus diebus uitae meae, qui passus es sub Pontio Pilato optimam confessionem, crucifixus descendisti et conculcasti aculeum mortis, qui dicxisti: ubi est aculeus mortis, ubi est mors qui regnabas. deuicta est mors, deuictus est inimicus diabolus, tu resurrexisti a mortuis et apparuisti discipulis tuis: sedisti ad dexteram patris, inde uenturus iudicare uiuos et mortuos. tu nostri dominaberis, libera me de manu quaerentis animam meam. per nomen tuum te deprecor ut optimam des uictoriam in inimicum meum: quia tu es potens et defensor et aduocatus precum et petitionum nostrarum animarum. die et nocte interpelles pro peccatis meis, orationem meam perferas ad patrem tuum. et tu, Domine sancte pater, digneris respicere super preces meas, sicut respecxisti super munera Abel. digneris me liberare ab igne et poena perenni et ab omni tormento quod parasti iniquis, per bonum et benedictum Iesum Christum saluatorem nostrum, per quem est tibi honor uirtus gloria in saecula saeculorum. amen. ### English translation (Claude) Every human being is a liar; you alone are the true God. As you have promised, you are able to give, Lord: reveal to me your heavenly mystery, that I may be worthy to see the face of your saints. Let the Holy Spirit work power in me, for I have pledged myself to serve you all the days of my life, you who suffered under Pontius Pilate, the good confession; who, crucified, went down and trampled the sting of death; who said, “Where is the sting of death? Where are you, death, who reigned?” Death is conquered, the enemy, the devil, is conquered; you rose from the dead and appeared to your disciples; you sat at the right hand of the Father, from where you will come to judge the living and the dead. You will rule over us: free me from the hand of him who seeks my soul. By your name I pray you to give me the best victory over my enemy, for you are mighty, the defender and advocate of the prayers and petitions of our souls. Day and night may you intercede for my sins and carry my prayer to your Father. And you, Lord, holy Father, deign to look upon my prayers, as you looked upon the gifts of Abel. Deign to free me from the fire and everlasting punishment and from every torment which you have prepared for the wicked, through the good and blessed Jesus Christ our Savior, through whom be to you honor, power, and glory for ever and ever. Amen. ### Scripture references - Ps 116:11 (115:2 LXX): quotation, high confidence - Rom 3:4: allusion, medium confidence - 1 Tim 6:13: allusion, high confidence - 1 Cor 15:55: quotation, high confidence - Ps 54:3 (53:5 LXX): allusion, medium confidence - Rom 8:34: allusion, medium confidence - 1 John 2:1: allusion, medium confidence - Gen 4:4: allusion, high confidence - Matt 25:41: allusion, high confidence ### Translation notes - Allusions and quotations: Ps 116:11 (Rom 3:4); 1 Tim 6:13 (the good confession); 1 Cor 15:55, quoted with an addition; Ps 54:3; Rom 8:34 and 1 John 2:1 (advocate); Gen 4:4; Matt 25:41; and the Apostles' Creed. “Who said” in the creed-like sequence refers to Christ. ### Citation (SBL) Ps.-Cyprian, Orat. 2 6 (CSEL 3.3:150–152; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/ps-cyprian-oratio-2/1/#p-6).