daily food. Cf. also Prov. xxx. 8. Thus was manna
given.
12. Ka/, and) The three remaining petitions regard the com mencement, progress and conclusion of our spiritual life in this world ; and those who utter them confess, not only their own need, but also their guilt, their peril, and their difficulties. When these have been removed, God is all in all to them, by virtue of the three first petitions. — opsiXwara, debts) In ver. 14 we find vapaxrupara, lapses. In Luke xi. 4, we have apapTia;, sins. Cf. Matt, xviii. 24.1 — us, as) Before it was "AS in heaven, SO on earth" now it is " so in heaven AS on earth."
13. M?j siffiviyxris j^ac, Lead us not into) Temptation is always in the way : wherefore we pray, not that it may not exist, but that it may not touch or overpower us. — See ch. xxvi. 41 ; 1 Cor. x. 13. — dXXa, but) The sixth and seventh petitions are so closely connected that they are considered by many as forming only one. — pveui, deliver) See 2 Tim. iv. 18. — a-ro rov irovrip oD, from the evil one) i.e., from Satan. — See ch. xiii. 19. 38.
"Or; <SvJ ssriv q j3aff/\t!a xai y\ tobofiuf xai TJ bo^a tig TOV$ aiuvas- 'A/XJJV, For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen) This is the scope of the Lord's Prayer, that we may be taught to pray in few words (ver. 8), for the things which we require ; and the prayer itself, even without the doxology, involves the praise of God in all its fulness (summam laudis Divinae imbibit). For our Heavenly Father is sanctified and glorified by us, when He is invoked as our Heavenly Father, when things of such magnitude are asked of Him alone, when to Him alone all things are referred. We celebrate Him, how ever, in such a manner as should content those who are fighting the fight of their salvation in a foreign land. When the whole number of the sons of God shall have reached their goal, a simple (mera) doxology will arise in Heaven, Hallowed be the name of our God. His kingdom has come : His will has been done. He has forgiven us our sins : He has brought temptation to an end : He has delivered us from the evil one. His is the kingdom, and
1 We ought not merely in general to pray for deliverance from guilt con tracted by our sins ; but whoever offends God in this or any other peculiar manner, is bound also specially to acknowledge and pray for deliverance from such offences, and so to give Him the honour due to Him. — V. g.