On Prayer 27

Tertullian · On Prayer · ca. 198–206 · Carthage · Read in context

Summary: Some add the Alleluia and responsorial psalms to their prayers, a good practice that honors God.

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Latin text · CSEL 20:198

Diligentiores in orando subiungere in orationibus Alleluia solent et hoc genus psalmos quorum clausulis respondeant qui simul sunt. et est optimum utique institutum omne quod praeponendo et honorando deo conpetit saturatam orationem uelut opimam hostiam admouere.

English · Claude translation

Those more diligent in praying are accustomed to add in their prayers the Alleluia and psalms of this kind, to whose closing lines those present respond. And certainly every practice is excellent that serves to extol and honor God, bringing up a full prayer like a rich victim.

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Source: CSEL 20:198 · August Reifferscheid and Georg Wissowa, eds., Quinti Septimi Florentis Tertulliani Opera, Pars 1, CSEL 20 (Prague: Tempsky; Vienna: Tempsky; Leipzig: Freytag, 1890), 180–200 · Latin text: August Reifferscheid and Georg Wissowa (CSEL 20), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in CSEL 20. 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 20; made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Topics: Prayer

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Tertullian, Or. 27 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/tertullian-oratione/27/).

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Tertullian, Or. 27 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/tertullian-oratione/27/).

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