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The Penitence of Origen is a text in the New Testament apocrypha, thought to have been falsely attributed to Origen of Alexandria. Not to be confused with Origen's text Selecta in Threnos (also named Origen on Lamentations), it is a Lamentation purporting to have been cried by Origen himself.
Jodocus Coccius quotes from it [1] (mistakenly attributing it to Selecta in Threnos):
The text has an affinity with the prayer used before communion, sometimes known as the Mea Culpa.
The work was declared apocryphal and rejected in the Decretum Gelasianum. [2]