He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 2. Father, hallowed be thy name, and so forth See Matthew 6. In the ordinary Greek copies here are all the seven petitions, as in Saint Matthew: and so they are in the Prot. Testament. Yet Saint Augustine in his Enchiridion, (c. i. tom. 6, p. 240,) says there were read seven petitions in S. Matt. and only five in Saint Luke. We may also take notice, that though in the Greek copies here in Saint Luke are all seven petitions of the Lord’s prayer, yet the doxology, for thine is the kingdom, and so forth is omitted in all Greek copies, and by the Protestants; which is a new argument and proof, that the said doxology is an addition from the Greek liturgy. Witham.