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‘In earth, as it is in heaven’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

G. G. Willis*
Affiliation:
Vicar of Wing and Rector of Grove, Buckinghamshire

Extract

The Book Annexed of 1662, as printed by the Queen’s Printers from the manuscript authenticated by the signatures of the members of both Houses of either Convocation, and annexed to the Act of Uniformity of 1662, shews no consistency in printing the Lord’s Prayer, and almost every time it occurs it is spelt or punctuated in a different way. But the variants are small, and in this Book the phrasing of the Prayer for public recitation appears in the following form:—

Our Father, which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. Amen.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1966

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References

Page 254 of note 1 Eyre and Spottiswoode, London 1892.

Page 256 of note 1 Pars IV, c. x, qu. iii.

Page 256 of note 2 Chase, F. H., ‘The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church,’ in Texts and Studies, Vol. I, No. 3, Cambridge 1891, 40-1Google Scholar.

Page 256 of note 3 Commentary on St. Matthew, London 1915, ad loc.

Page 257 of note 1 Origen, , On Prayer, XXVI, 2, trans. Jay, E. G., 161 Google Scholar.

Page 257 of note 2 Kilpatrick, G. D., The Origins of the Gospel according to St. Matthew, Oxford 1946, 21 Google Scholar.