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The Lord’s Prayer is the most recited, most memorized, and most studied text in the Bible. This prayer of Jesus, found in two versions in Matthew and Luke, has been extolled for its simplicity and beauty, for its reflection of “real life,” and for its vision of the consummated kingdom. It also contains several conundrums: what does it mean to “hallow” the Father’s name? What relationship does our...

Along these same lines, the God of Israel committed himself not only to hearing the prayers of his people but also to acting on behalf of their well-being. When they were slaves in Egypt, suffering under Pharaoh’s cruelty, “God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” (Exod 2:24). In Deuteronomy, the compassion of God is affirmed: “When the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, by imposing hard labor on us, we cried to the LORD, the God of our
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