{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110791.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110791.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110791.htm","text":"Of our supersubstantial or daily bread.\nNext: \u201cGive us this day our bread which is \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd,\u201d i.e., \u201csupersubstantial,\u201d which another Evangelist calls \u201cdaily.\u201d 1614 The former indicates the quality of its nobility and substance, in virtue of which it is above all p. 395 substances and the loftiness of its grandeur and holiness exceeds all creatures, while the latter intimates the purpose of its use and value. For where it says \u201cdaily\u201d it shows that without it we cannot live a spiritual life for a single day. Where it says \u201ctoday\u201d it shows that it must be received daily and that yesterday\u2019s supply of it is not enough, but at it must be given to us today also in like manner. And our daily need of it suggests to us that we ought at all times to offer up this prayer, because there is no day on which we have no need to strengthen the heart of our inner man, by eating and receiving it, although the expression used, \u201ctoday\u201d may be taken to apply to his present life, i.e., while we are living in this world supply us with this bread. For we know that it will be given to those who deserve it by Thee hereafter, but we ask that Thou wouldest grant it to us today, because unless it has been vouchsafed to a man to receive it in this life he will never be partaker of it in that.\nHere Cassian is relying entirely on Jerome\u2019s revised text of the Latin, which has supersubstantialis in S. Matt. vi. 11, as the rendering of \u1f10\u03c0\u03b9\u03bf\u03cd\u03c3\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 but translates the same word by quotidianum in the parallel passage in S. Luke xi. 3. It is curious that Cassian should have been thus misled, with his knowledge of Greek, as well as his acquaintance with the old Latin version which has quotidianum in both gospels. Cf. Bishop Lightfoot \u201cOn a Fresh Revision of the New Testament,\u201d p. 219.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XXI. Of our supersubstantial or daily bread.","type":"page"}