{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/103/1030366.htm","path":"chr/ecf/103/1030366.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/103/1030366.htm","text":"Chapter 116.\u2014Luke Expresses the Substance of These Seven Petitions More Briefly in Five.\nBut the Evangelist Luke in his version of the Lord\u2019s 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\u2019s name is hallowed in the spirit; and God\u2019s 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 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, \u201cbut deliver us from evil,\u201d Luke has omitted, 1314 to show us that it is embraced in the previous petition about temptation. Matthew, indeed, himself says, \u201cbut deliver,\u201d not \u201cand deliver,\u201d 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 temptation.\n[These petitions are retained in the A.V., but omitted in the R.V., according to the oldest authorities.\u2014P.S.]\n274:1314","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Doctrinal Treat...","type":"page"}