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LORD'S PRAYER
LORD'S PRAYER
(O; In some Oriental translations 'deliver' is rendered by different roots in Mt. and Lk., and then both are combined in litur^cal use of the Lord's Prayer.
(7) Of the DoxologTi' the Dldacite omits ' the kingdom and ' ; in the Apost. Const, (r^) one MS, on the contrary, omits ' and the IX)\ver and the glory ' ; and the same two clauses are omitted by another 31S at 318, which with its ally ends ' of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, for ever and ever.' In this con- nexion it is worth while to remark, that Funk, in his new edition of the Didascalia and Apost. Const., puts at 3^'* and 7"^ the final quotation marks after Totzpcii, implying by this that he does not regard the Doxology as ijart of the quotation from the NT. Coniijare with this the above statement about the MSS of the Constitutiotis, and Brightman's Liturgies Eastern and Western, p. 353 f.
In Lk. the modern editions differ even less than in Mt. — only in a single letter, Weiss retaining here also the s]>elling iXderu. With this unity contrast the judgment of Dean Burgon (The He- vision Revised, pp. 34—36 ; The Traditional Text, p. 84) :
'"The five Old Uncials" (kABCD) falsify the Lord's Prayer as given hy St. Luke in no less than forty-five words. But so little do they agree among themselves, that they throw them- selves into six different combinations in their departures from the Traditional Text ; and yet they are never able to agree among themselves as to one single various reading : while only once are more than two of them observed to stand together, and their grand point of union is no less than an omission of the article. Such is their eccentric tendency, that in respect of thirty-two out of the whole forty-five words they bear in turn solitar\ evidence.'
Any one Avho is unAA'illing to believe that the TR of Lk. is due to assimilation vith ]SIt. may compare the critical apparatus of the Latin Testa- ment of Wordsworth- White, or of the pre-Lutheran German Bible as edited by Kurrelnieyer. There he can watch the same process for the German and the Latin te.xts Even the Vulgate of Sixtus V. (1590) has the addition in Lk., Fiat voluntas tua sicnt in cwlo et in terra ; but not the rest.
The chief que.stion about the Lord's Praj-er in Lk. is, What about the petition eX^e'rw to ayiov 7rv€v/xd (Tov €<p TjfJLai Kai Kadapiadrijj ij/xd.s, which is witnessed for Marcion and found since in one MS (6U4, or Scrivener's b, Gregory's 700, von Soden's e 133, pub. by Hoskier, 1890). Perhaps a trace of it is found in D, wMch has ayiwcrOriTU} ovofiA <rov €<p' iifj-as, (\d€Tw (TOV Tj ^affiKila, etc. Another read- ing of Marcion is 'thy bread' for '^ our' ; whether he read tlie .second clause of the fifth petition we do not know, the .<ixth (and last with liim) had the form Kal /jlt) a<pes ijuds ucrevexQ'Ovai ei'j ■jreipa.cry.ov. The same or similar forms are found indei^endently from Marcion ilown to the present day. Hamack (Sitzungsber. Acad. Berl. 21st Jan. 1904) Avas in- clined to see in the petition, ' Thy holy spirit come (upon us) and cleanse vls,' the original for Lk., comparing 11^^ with Mt 7".
i. Arrangement of the Lord's Prayer.— Augus- tine tells us [Enchir. 116) : ' Lucas in oratione dominica petition es non septem sed quinque coni- plexus est ' ; thus it became the custom in the We.st to count seven petitions ; but Origen, Chrj'.so- stom, and the Reformed Churches count six, con- necting ' but deliver us from evil ' closely with Avhat precedes. WH print in ]SIt. the Lord's Prayer in 2 x 3 stichi, in Lk. without strophical arrangement, seeing in ' as in heaven, so on earth ' the common burden for the first triplet of single clauses ; see § 421. This has been adopted now for the Pr. Bk. version by Parliamentary Papers, 1903, No. 53, remoAdng the comma from behind 'on earth' to behind 'done.' For the AV, the editions of the Parallel XT give a comma after ' done ' as well as after ' on earth ' ; but Scrivener's Paragraph Bible (1873), the Two Version Edition (1900), and the Interlinear Bible (1906) omit the first comma. ^Miether the RV agrees \\\i\i AVH is not quite clear from its comma (in this case we should have expected a colon). This arrangement was already put forward by the Opus imjierfeetum in
J/<. (Migne, Ivi. 712): 'Communiter autem accipi detet quod ait, Sicut in ccelo et in terra,' i.e. —
' Sanctihcetur nomen tuum, sicut in ccelo et in terra.
Adveniat regnum tuum, sicut in ccelo et in terra.
Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in ccelo et in teiTa.'
On the fact that in mediaeval explanations the beginning was con.strued ' Pater noster qui e.s. In coclis sanctihcetur nomen tuum,' see below.
5. Contents. — (a) The exordium. — The short wdrtp in Lk., the fuller Trdrtp i]fji.Qv in Mt., would both correspond to an Aram, njx, which is con- nected with 6 TraTTip in Ko 8'', Gal 4", :Mk 14»«. Cf. J. H. IMoulton's Prolcgojncna, pp. 10, 233, and art. Abba in vol. i. That Trdrep 7)fj.Cjv maj' also correspond to k^x and does not neces.sarilj- pre- suppose the form with suihx ('vnx in Heb., [jisn in Aram., nj^n in Galil;ean), is .showm bj' Dalman, Worte JesH, 157, though for the beginning of a prayer tlie more solemn form appears to him more probable. Among Jews it is customary to add c;ss'5B' in Hebrew (H'jzyy^, in Aramaic) to 3n where it is used of God, but the isolated kzn is not unu.sual. In the NT 6 iv toIs ovpavoh is almost exclusively used in Matthew. On the question whether from Ro 8^^, Gal 4^ an acquaintance of St. Paul and his churches with the Lovd'.s Prayer may be concluded, .see Gerh. Bindeuiann, Das Gebet uin tagliche Ver- gebung der Siindcn in der licilsverkioidigung Jesu nnd in den Bricfen der Ajiostel, Giiter.sloh, 1902.