in ayta&qru (Jiallowed be), has the same force as in sX^sru, come and yevrfrvru (be done): it is, therefore, a prayer and not an ex press doxology.
10. 'EX^ET-W — ysv»]Sy^rw x.r.A., come — be done, etc.) Tertullian has transposed these two petitions for the sake of his plan. For in his book on prayer, after he has treated of the petition, " Hal lowed be Thy name" he says, " ACCORDING TO THIS FORM, we add, ' Thy will be done in the heavens and on the earth"' And he then refers the coming of God's kingdom to the end of the world. — 35 fSaffiXsla Sou, Thy kingdom) See Gnomon on ch. iv. 17, and Rev. xi. 15, 17. The sanctification of God's name is as it were derived from the Old Testament into the New, to be con tinued and increased by us ; but the coming of God's kingdom is in some sort peculiar to the New Testament. Thus with these two petitions respectively, Cf. Rev. iv. 8, and v. 10. — rb SiXjj/Aa 2ou, Thy will) Jesus always kept His Father's will before His eyes, for His own performance and for ours. See ch. vii. 21, xii. 50. — us, x.r.A, as, etc.) " It will be the part of the pastor to admonish the faithful, that these words, ' as in heaven so on earth,' may be referred to each of the (three) first petitions as, 1 Hallowed be Thy name, as in heaven so on earth,' also, ' Thy kingdom come as in heaven so on earth,' in like manner, ' Thy will be done as in heaven so on earth.'" — ROMAN CATECHISM.1 The codices however which in Luke xi. 2 omit the words, " Thy will be done" omit also the words, " As in heaven so on earth" — iv ovpavjj, in heaven) We do not ask that these things may be clone in heaven : but heaven is proposed as the normal standard to earth — earth in which all things are done in diffe rent ways.2
11. Tov aprov, the bread) sc. nourishment of the body; see ver. 19, etc., 25, etc., from which it is evident that the disciples were not yet raised above the cares of this life. This short
1 sc. that, issued under the sanction of the Council of Trent. — (I. B.)
2 In the original " in qua aliter alia fiunt omnia." — Lit. : " in which all things are done, some one way, some another." — i.e. The unvarying unifor mity of Heaven, which conforms itself undeviatingly to the Divine Will, should be the standard by which to correct the multiform variety of Earth, the infinite diversities of which are none of them in strict accordance with that Will.— (I. B.)