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Kevin Terry
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Mike,
- Why do Protestants say for thine is the
kingdom and the power and the glory forever at
the end of the Lord's Prayer?
My friend who is a Protestant in Philadelphia
said that it was in his Bible, Matthew 6:9-13.
I looked in my Bibles and I sure didn't see this.
- Do you know the deal on all of this?
Thanks,
Kevin
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Why do Protestants say For thine is the
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Richard replied:
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Hi Kevin,
I found the following information in Scripture expert Bruce Metzger's commentary on the
Greek
New Testament. Here's my summary of what he said:
The doxological ending to Matthew 6:13 appears in some manuscripts of
St.
Matthew's Gospel, but not all.
The phrase is certainly quite old: it appears when the Lord's Prayer was
quoted in the Didache around 100 A.D. or so; on the other hand, some early
Church writers do not mention the phrase in their commentaries on the Lord's
Prayer.
One theory says that early Christians added the ending to the prayer for
use in worship, since it was customary for Jewish prayers to end with a
similar expression of praise. |
— RC
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John replied:
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Hi, Kevin —
Beyond what Richard pointed respecting manuscripts, Catholics also include
the doxology to the Lord's prayer during the Mass.
They simply use it as response
after the prayer is said.
John
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