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| Luke Expresses the Substance of These Seven Petitions More Briefly in Five.
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116.—Luke Expresses the Substance of These Seven Petitions More
Briefly in Five.
But the Evangelist Luke in his
version of the Lord’s prayer embraces not seven, but five
petitions: not, of course, that there is any discrepancy between
the two evangelists, but that Luke indicates by his very brevity
the mode in which the seven petitions of Matthew are to be
understood. For God’s name is hallowed in the spirit; and God’s
kingdom shall come in the resurrection of the body. Luke,
therefore, intending to show that the third petition is a sort of
repetition of the first two, has chosen to indicate that by
omitting the third altogether.1313
| 1313 [These petitions are retained in
the A.V., but omitted in the R.V., according to the oldest
authorities.—P.S.] | Then he adds three others: one for
daily bread, another for pardon of sin, another for immunity from
temptation. And what Matthew puts as the last petition, “but
deliver us from evil,” Luke has omitted,1314
| 1314 [These petitions are retained in
the A.V., but omitted in the R.V., according to the oldest
authorities.—P.S.] | to show us that it is embraced in
the previous petition about temptation. Matthew, indeed, himself
says, “but deliver,” not “and deliver,” as if
to show that the petitions are virtually one: do not this, but
this; so that every man is to understand that he is delivered from
evil in the very fact of his not being led into
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