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C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lord’s Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of how the ancients prayed during Jesus’ time in order to set the context for understanding the prayer he taught his disciples. Throughout the book, Black systematically interprets the rich meanings of each part of the Lord’s prayer....

For Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752), Lutheran pastor and New Testament textual critic, “The mood in ‘hallowed be’ has the same force as in ‘come’ and ‘be done’: therefore, petition, not praise is expressed” (quoted in Harner, Understanding the Lord’s Prayer, 61). Bengel’s lines were drawn too sharply. It is more accurate to say that the supplicant makes a petition to God that God be praised. “Ask for the great things that the small shall be added unto you”: so Clement of Alexandria (Miscellanies
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