free Origen on Prayer book

August 15th, 2008 | Categories: books

The latest Classic book recommended by Christian Classics Ethereal Library is Origen on Prayer.

Origen was an early church father (185-254), and s you may suspect this book is mostly about prayer! In it he highlights four types of prayer from Timothy 1:

requests
prayer
intercession
thanksgiving

Origen led an amazing life culminating in his death after being tortured during persecution. He was a prolific writer, and wrote commentaries on all books in the bible. Not only that but he even wrote a corrected version of the Septuagint bible.

Here is an extract from Origen on Prayer:

Again I believe the words of the prayer of the saints to be full of power above all when praying ‘with the spirit,’ they pray ‘also with the understanding,’ which is like a light rising from the suppliant’s mind and proceeding from his lips to gradually weaken by the power of God the mental venom injected by the adverse powers into the intellect of such as neglect prayer and fail to keep that saying of Paul’s in accordance with the exhortations of Jesus, ‘Pray without ceasing.’ … For the saying ‘pray without ceasing’ can only be accepted by us as a possibility if we may speak of the whole life of a saint as one great continuous prayer.

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Paul Foltz DD
August 22, 2008

Paul Foltz DD
August 22, 2008

Origen was a corrupt so-called church father. He wrote ”THE HEXALPHA” FROM WHICH ALL THE PERVERSE TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE, OTHER THAN THOSE FROM THE CORRECT RECEIVED TEXT ARE DERIVED.
ENOCH ODUOLA
March 29, 2010

ENOCH ODUOLA
March 29, 2010

glory be to god in the highest for me to have a contact with you i have been try to know more about you and i will be glad if you can help me , or knowing something about how you able at this time still able to maintain your christian journey . I need help in prayer and some christain literature book. more grace to you in the lord.
Andrew A. Sailer
October 9, 2010

Andrew A. Sailer
October 9, 2010

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David Kinsella
January 22, 2011

David Kinsella
January 22, 2011

I read rubbish like what Foltz above said. The truth is the Church had variant readings from very early on. Way before Origen. And you know what? They didn’t argue about it. What’s more the NT writers themselves quote more from the Septuagint than they do from the Masoretic text. They’re the facts.
brother tom
February 12, 2011

brother tom
February 12, 2011

Jesus the Christ is Lord

I need true obedient servants of the Lord to send Farmers 200.00 for auto insurance
thank you brethren
blessings to you
brother tom
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