NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 6:13

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Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.’

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Verse 13. God is not the tempter of evil, or author of sin. James 1:13. He tempteth no man: we pray that he would not suffer the devil to tempt us above our strength: that he would remove the temptations, or enable us to overcome them, and deliver us from evil, particularly the evil of sin, which is the first, and the greatest, and the true efficient cause of all evils. A.—In the Greek we here read, for thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory; which words are found in some old Greek liturgies, and there is every appearance that they have thence slipped into the text of S. Matt. They do not occur in Saint Luke (6:4), nor in any one of the old Latin copies, nor yet in the most ancient of the Greek texts. The holy Fathers prior to S. Chrysostom, as Grotius observes, who have explained the Lord’s prayer, never mention these words.—And not being found in Tertullian, S. Cyprian, S. Jerom, Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, and so forth, nor in the Vatican Greek copy, nor in the Cambridge MSS. and so forth as Dr. Wells also observes, it seems certain that they were only a pious conclusion, or doxology, with which the Greeks in the fourth age began to conclude their prayers, much after the same manner as, Glory be to the Father, and so forth was added to the end of each psalm. We may reasonably presume, that these words at first were in the margin of some copies, and afterwards by some transcribers taken into the text itself. Witham.

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NU omits “For yours is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.”

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