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Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer; First Principles: Book IV; Prologue to the Commentary on the Song of Songs; Homily XXVII on Numbers is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume consists of the important and influential writings of Origen, a Christian mystic and early father of the church. Origen (c. 185–254) was born in Alexandria and lived through the turbulent years during the collapse of the Roman Empire.

2. One of these two, I mean the “what we ought,” consists of the words of prayer, while the “as we ought” refers to the disposition of the person praying. The following sayings are examples of the “what we ought”: “Seek the great things and the little things will be added for you; seek the heavenly things and the earthly things will be added for you”;20 “Pray for those who abuse you” (Lk. 6:28); “Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Mt. 9:38; Lk. 10:2); “Pray
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