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The visit of the Magi, the Sermon on the Mount, the Great Commission: these are only a few of the well-known passages in Matthew’s Gospel. Yet it begins with a list of unknown names and apparently irrelevant ‘begettings’. The early church may have placed Matthew first in the New Testament because it provides a Christian perspective on the relation between the church and the Jews, an issue that is...

Hallowed be thy name is asking for more than reverent speech. (Hallow means ‘make holy’, or better ‘treat as holy, reverence’, BAGD, p. 9a.) The name represents God himself as revealed to men (so frequently in the Old Testament, e.g. Deut. 28:58; Isa. 30:27). This clause may thus express both a desire to see God truly honoured as God in the world today, and an eschatological longing for the day when all men acknowledge God as the Lord. 10. Thy kingdom come is the most clearly eschatological clause
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