Closing word to Ambrose and Tatiana
This, to my power, I contested for the problem of prayer, and for the prayer in the Gospels, and the words before it with Matthew — most studious and most genuine brothers in godliness, Ambrosius and Tatiana. I despair not — with your 'things before' stretched toward and your 'things behind' forgotten, and your being in these things praying for us — of holding more and diviner things in all these from the giving God, and, receiving again, discussing the same things more greatly grown and loftier and plainer. Only, at present, with indulgence, shall you meet with these (Philippians 3:13).
Greek
ΧΧΧΙΥ͂. Ταῦτα κατὰ δύναμιν ἐμὴν εἰς τὸ τῆς εὐχῆς πρόβλημα καὶ εἰς τὴν ἐν τοῖς εὐαγγελίοις εὐχὴν τά τε πρὸ αὐτῆς παρὰ τῷ “Ματϑαίῳ εἰρημένα ἡμῖν διήϑληται, φιλομαϑέστατοι καὶ γνησιώτατοι ἐν ϑεοσεβείᾳ ἀδελφοὶ, ᾿Αμβρόσιε καὶ Τατιανή. οὐκ ἀπογινώσχω δὲ,
5 τοῖς Eunooodev“ ὑμῶν ἐπεχτεινομένων καὶ τῶν ὃπισϑεν ἐπιλανϑα- νομένων εὐχομένων τε ἔν τούτοις ὄντων περὶ ἡμῶν, πλείονα καὶ ϑειότερα εἰς πάντα ταῦτα δυνηϑῆναι χωρῆσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ διδόντος ϑεοῦ καὶ λαβὼν πάλιν περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν διαλαβεῖν μεγαλοφυέστερον καὶ ὑψηλότερον καὶ τρανότερον" πλὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος μετὰ συ)-
8 ἡμῖν) ὑμῖν ΟΣ. Angl. (bei Del. 19308) | 6 ἡμῶν Ausgg. ὑμῶν T| 8 λαβὼν) λαβόντα Ox. | 10 mit ἐντεύξεσϑε: + F reAlos) [?] endigt T auf fol. 38V.
About this text
Origen’s treatise on prayer. Open the Greek under each section.
English follows Paul Koetschau, Origenes Werke II (GCS, 1899). Where orat_* OET tip slices are present, those sections use that new English from the Greek (Pass A≠B). Archive OCR of GCS was checked elsewhere.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Koetschau, Origenes Werke II (GCS 3, 1899) (Greek · On Prayer)
- Checked print Archive.org OCR of GCS 3 (Greek · Same print)
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