yield to temptation’ (4QFlor 1:8), that the verb reflects a Hebrew causative, and that the negative qualifies the idea of entry, so that the thought is not ‘do not cause us to succumb to temptation’, but rather ‘cause us not to succumb to temptation’. This sense fits in admirably with the additional clause in Mt.: in the midst of temptation and tribulation God will deliver his people from the power of evil. The second part of the section on prayer is a parable peculiar
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