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The Church Fathers · c. 233
On Prayer
Peri Euches
Origen of Alexandria · c. 185–c. 253
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What it is
An answer to the objection that prayer is pointless if God already knows and has already decided, followed by a full exposition of the Lord's Prayer.
Why it lasted
The most searching treatment of prayer and providence in the early church, and still the standard patristic reference on the subject.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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