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These are the only three existing ante-Nicene treatises on the Lord’s Prayer, and they became the starting point for many other commentaries. Of the three, however, only the discourse of Cyprian is an address to catechumens. Tertullian’s treatise contains additional material on the conduct of worship and on prayer in the assembly, and Origen’s commentary is a vast work on the whole subject of...

The Spirit of God and the Word of God and the reason of God, the Word of reason and the reason of the Word,1 both of which are spirit,2 namely Jesus Christ our Lord, marked out for his new disciples of the new covenant a new form of prayer. It was fitting that, in this instance likewise, new wine should be stored in new bottles and a new patch be stitched to a new garment (Mt 9:17 and par.). Whatever was of the old has either been transformed, as has circumcision, or else
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