History of Interpretation28 Tertullian sees in the Lord’s Prayer a summary of all of the teaching of faith and morals, an “abridgement of the entire Gospel.”29 For him the new covenant requires a new form of prayer; it is the new wineskin in which the new wine is kept. It is thus understandable that the Lord’s Prayer becomes not only the central Christian prayer but also one of the most central dogmatic texts. As Cyprian already stated,30 it is a “compendium of heavenly doctrine.” In the ancient