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Matthew 1–7: A Commentary on Matthew 1–7 is unavailable, but you can change that!

The birth narrative, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, the beginnings of his Galilean ministry, the Sermon on the Mount are all brilliantly illumined by Ulrich Luz’s expert textual- and historical-critical analysis and theological commentary. Luz brings special attention to the subsequent history of Christian appropriation of Matthew in homiletical and artistic interpretation, and addresses...

Matthew, praying the Lord’s Prayer three times a day is proposed (8.3). To the traditional three times of prayer Cyprian adds two others: at sunrise and sunset. Augustine is of the opinion that no day should go by on which Christians do not perform this prayer.44 In the Middle Ages the Lord’s Prayer played an important role in monastic horary prayer,45 even as laypersons were becoming less familiar with it.46 For that very reason the Lord’s Prayer was used in those days as a formula for magic and
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