EXERCISE ON OUR LORD'S PRAYER, (Matt, vi, 9-13; Luke xi, 2-4.)
Οὕτως οὖν προσεύχεσϑε[1] ὑμεῖς· (Ὅταν προσεύχησϑε,[2]Thus therefore pray YE: (Whenever ye pray,
λέγετε·[3]) Πάτερ[4] ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς,[5] ἁγιασϑήτω[6] τὸ
say:) Father of us, the one in the heavens, let be hallowed the
ὄνομά[7] σου, έλϑέτω[8] ἡ βασιλεία[9] σου, γενηϑήτω[10] τὸ
name of thee; let come the kingdom of thee; let be done the
ϑέλημἄ[11] σου ως ἐν οὐρανῷ[12] καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,[13] τὸν ἄρτον[14]will of thee, as in heaven, also upon the earth; the bread
ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον[15] δὸς[16] (δίδου[17]) ἡμῖν σήμερον,[18] (τὸ[19]of us, the needful, give (give) to us to-day; as to the time
καϑ᾽[20] ἡμέραν,[21]) καὶ ἄφες[22] ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα[23] (τὰς ἁμαρτίας[24])
by day; and forgive to us the debts (the sins)
ἡμῶν, ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφίεμεν[25] τοῖς ὀφειλέταις[26] ἡμῶν, (καὶ
of us, as also we forgive to the debtors of us; (and this do,
γὰρ αὐτοἱ[27] ἀφίεμεν[25] παντὶ[28] ὀφε λοντι[29] ἡμῖν,) καὶ μὴ
for ourselves we forgive to every one owing to us;) and not
εἰσενέγκῃς[30] ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν,[31] ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι[32] ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ
mayest thou lead us into trial; but deliver thou us away
τοῦ πονηροῦ·[33] [ὅτι σοῦ ἐστὶν[34] ἡ βασιλεία,[9] καὶ ἡ
from the evil: [because of thee is the kingdom, and the
δύναμις,[35] καὶ ἡ δόξα[36] εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.[37] ἀμήν.[38]]
power, and the glory to the ages. Amen.]
Remark.--The words above in parentheses are the variations in the passage of Luke. The concluding doxology in brackets is not found in the oldest manuscripts, and is probably spurious.
1. προσεύχομαι, lit., pray towards; depon., [§ 40]; pres., [§ 58]; indic., [§ 42]; 2d plur. mid., [§ 49].
2. Subj., [§ 42]; required by conditional particle preceding, [§ 44].
3. λέγω; pres., [§ 65]; imper., [§ 42]; 2d plur. act., [§ 49].
4. πατήρ, (accent irregularly shifted;) 3d decl., [§ 32]; voc. sing., [§ 27].
5. οὐρανός, [§ 30]; dat. plur., [§ 88].
6. ἁγιάζω, root ἁγιαδ, from ἅγιος =holy; 1st aor. pass., [§ 59]; σ for δ, [§ 14]; η in imper., [§ 42]; 3d pers. sing., [§ 53]; as if act., [§ 52].
8. viii, 8; 2d aor. [§ 48]; imper. [§ 42]; 3d sing. act., [§ 53].
9. Nom. sing. fem., [§ 29]; cannot take the enclitic's accent ([§ 3]) like [No. 7], as another acute immediately precedes.
10. γίνομαι, [vii, 15]; 1st aor. pass., [No. 6]; first η assumed irreg. as if a deriv.
11. [No. 7].
12. [No. 5]; dat. sing., [§ 88].
13. γῆ, [§ 28]; gen. sing., of place all over, like time, [§ 83].
14. ἄρτος. [§ 30]; acc. sing. [§ 97].
15. ἐπιούσιος, prob. comp. of ἐπί, for, and οὐσία, subsistence; used only here; acc. sing. masc., [§ 34].
16. From δίδωμι, [§ 67]; irreg,, 2d aor. imp. 2d sing. act.
17. Same verb; irreg. pres. imper. 2d sing. act.
19. Elliptical, [§ 74]; "attrib. acc." [§ 97].
21. From ἡμέρα, [§ 29]; acc. sing. of time, [§ 97]; here distributive, daily.
22. From ἀφίημι=send away; ἀπό and ἵημι, [§ 69]; irreg. 2d aor. imper.; 2d sing. act., like [No. 16].
23. From ὀφείλημα, like [No. 7]; acc. plur. neut., [§ 32].
24. From ἁμαρτία. [§ 28].
25. From same as [No. 22]; pres. ind. 1st plur. act., [§ 49];
26. From ὀφειλέτης, [§ 28]; dat. plur., [§ 92].
27. Def. adj. pron., [§ 39]; used as pers. of all persons.
28. From πᾶς, see [vii, 12]; dat. sing. masc., [§ 32].
29. Pres. act. part, of ὀφείλω, like [ix, 12]; dat. sing. masc., [§ 92].
30. Assigned to εἰσφέρω, but really belonging to the defective cognate, εἰσήνεγκα, irreg. reduplicate, 1st aor., from εἰς, into, and an obsolete ἔγκω, (for ενκω, [§ 16];) subj., [§ 41], (dependent end upon an implied verb of wishing or deprecating [§ 44];) 2d sing. act., [§ 51].
31. From πειρασμός, [§ 30]; acc. sing., [§ 94].
32. From ῥύομαι, [§ 62]; depon., [§ 40]; 1st aor., [§ 59]; imper. union-vowel α, [§ 42]; 2d sing. mid., [§ 53].
33. Noun implied, [§ 74]; 2d decl., [§ 34]; gen. sing. neut., [§ 81].
34. From εἰμί, [§ 69].
35. See [§ 33].
36. See [ix, 34].