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On Prayer

De oratione

Written about 233 to 235, probably in Caesarea Maritima (now Caesarea, Israel). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

A book on prayer, with a commentary on the Lord's Prayer.

Treatise · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable

Quasten, Patrology vol. 2 (1953): 233 to 234

Place written probable

Origen lived and taught at Caesarea from about 232 (Eusebius, Church History 6.26-27; Nautin, Origène, 1977)