In Matthew’s version, traces of liturgical elaboration can be discerned in the resonant address to God as “Our Father who is in the heavens,” in the cosmic space being created by the phrases “as in heaven, so on earth,” and in the formal parallelism between three divine petitions and three human petitions. Also noteworthy is Matthew’s didactic emphasis on human forgiveness, which is presented as a measure by which (“as”) divine forgiveness shall be granted and is reinforced by the conditional