{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030747.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030747.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030747.htm","text":"Chapter III.\u2014The Second Clause.\nThe name of \u201cGod the Father\u201d had been published to none. Even Moses, who had interrogated Him on that very point, had heard a different name. 8773 To us it has been revealed in the Son, for the Son is now the Father\u2019s new name. \u201cI am come,\u201d saith He, \u201cin the Father\u2019s name;\u201d 8774 and again, \u201cFather, glorify Thy name;\u201d 8775 and more openly, \u201cI have manifested Thy name to men.\u201d 8776 That name, therefore, we pray may \u201cbe hallowed.\u201d Not that it is becoming for men to wish God well, as if there were any other 8777 by whom He may be wished well, or as if He would suffer unless we do so wish. Plainly, it is universally becoming for God to be blessed 8778 in every place and time, on account of the memory of His benefits ever due from every man. But this petition also serves the turn of a blessing. Otherwise, when is the name of God not \u201choly,\u201d and \u201challowed\u201d through Himself, seeing that of Himself He sanctifies all others\u2014He to whom that surrounding circle of angels cease not to say, \u201cHoly, holy, holy?\u201d 8779 In like wise, therefore, we too, candidates for angelhood, if we succeed in deserving it, begin even here on earth to learn by heart that strain hereafter to be raised unto God, and the function of future glory. So far, for the glory of God. On the other hand, for our own petition, when we say, \u201cHallowed be Thy name,\u201d we pray this; that it may be hallowed in us who are in Him, as well in all others for whom the grace of God is still waiting; 8780 that we may obey this precept, too, in \u201cpraying for all,\u201d 8781 even for our personal enemies. 8782 And therefore with suspended utterance, not saying, \u201cHallowed be it in us,\u201d we say,\u2014\u201cin all.\u201d","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: The S...","type":"page"}