Lord's Prayer Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Origin==== The doxology is not included in Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer, nor is it present in the earliest manuscripts (papyrus or parchment) of Matthew,<ref>Nicholas Ayo (1993), ''The Lord's Prayer: A Survey Theological and Literary'', University of Notre Dame Press, p. 7, {{ISBN|978-0-268-01292-2}}</ref> representative of the Alexandrian text, although it is present in the manuscripts representative of the later [[Byzantine text-type|Byzantine text]].{{sfn|Clontz|Clontz|2008|p=8}} Most scholars do not consider it part of the original text of Matthew.<ref>David E. Aune 2010, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ygcgn8h-jo4C&pg=PA299 ''The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament''] (Blackwell {{ISBN|978-1-4051-0825-6}}), p. 299.</ref><ref>Kurt Aland and Barbara Aland 1998, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2pYDsAhUOxAC&pg=PA306 ''The Text of the New Testament''] (Eerdmans {{ISBN|0-8028-4098-1}}), p. 306.</ref> The [[Codex Washingtonianus]], which adds a doxology (in the familiar text), is of the early fifth or late fourth century.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joseph M. Holden|author2=Norman Geisler|title=The Popular Handbook of Archaeology and the Bible: Discoveries That Confirm the Reliability of Scripture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6WGSkPqUyUC&pg=PA117|date=1 August 2013|publisher=Harvest House Publishers|isbn=978-0-7369-4485-4|page=117}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Larry W. Hurtado|title=The Freer Biblical Manuscripts: Fresh Studies of an American Treasure Trove|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7h-R8A9Ws0EC&pg=PA227|year=2006|publisher=Society of Biblical Lit|isbn=978-1-58983-208-4|page=227}}</ref> New translations generally omit it except as a footnote.<ref>{{cite book|author=Michael J. Gorman|title=Scripture: An Ecumenical Introduction to the Bible and Its Interpretation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQr2AAAAQBAJ&pg=PT128|date=1 September 2005|publisher=Baker Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-4412-4165-8|page=128}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=David S. Dockery|author2=David E. Garland|title=Seeking the Kingdom: The Sermon on the Mount Made Practical for Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UZLAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80|date=10 December 2004|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1-59752-009-6|page=80}}</ref> The ''[[Didache]]'', generally considered a first-century text, has a doxology, "for yours is the power and the glory forever", as a conclusion for the Lord's Prayer (''Didache'', 8:2).{{sfn|Taylor|1994|p=69}}{{sfn|Black|2018|p=227}}{{sfn|Richardson|1953|p=174}} C. Clifton Black, although regarding the ''Didache'' as an "early second century" text, nevertheless considers the doxology it contains to be the "earliest additional ending we can trace".{{sfn|Black|2018|p=227}} Of a longer version,{{efn|"For yours is <u>the kingdom</u> and <u>the power</u> and <u>the glory</u> unto the ages. Amen. (AT) [emphasis in original]"{{sfn|Black|2018|p=228}}}} Black observes: "Its earliest appearance may have been in Tatian's ''[[Diatessaron]]'', a second-century harmony of the four Gospels".{{sfn|Black|2018|p=228}} The first three editions of the [[United Bible Societies]] text cited the ''Diatessaron'' for inclusion of the familiar doxology in Matthew 6:13, but in the later editions it cites the ''Diatessaron'' for excluding it.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Matthew R. Crawford|author2=Nicholas J. Zola|title=The Gospel of Tatian: Exploring the Nature and Text of the Diatessaron|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XKOfDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA227|date=11 July 2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-0-567-67989-5|page=227}}</ref>{{Specify |reason=See Talk:Zola & UBS |date=July 2020}} The ''[[Apostolic Constitutions]]'' added "the kingdom" to the beginning of the formula in the ''Didache'', thus establishing the now familiar doxology.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Alexander Roberts|author2=Sir James Donaldson|title=Ante-Nicene Christian Library: The Clementine homilies. The Apostolic constitutions (1870)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QWVKAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA105|year=1870|publisher=T. and T. Clark|page=105}}</ref><ref>Apostolic Constitutions, 7, 24, 1: PG 1,1016</ref><ref>[https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p4s2.htm Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2760]</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page