April/May
2014 - Vol. 73
On
the Lord's Prayer
by
Cyprian
of Carthage, 3rd century
But Deliver Us from Evil
The Lord's Prayer has an ending which neatly summarizes the different
requests. We say actually at the end:`But deliver us from evil,' understanding
by such an expression everything that the Enemy can devise against us in
this world.
One certain conviction we have: that God is a powerful support since
he grants his help to anyone who asks for it.
Consequently, when we say: `Deliver us from evil,'there is nothing else
left for us to ask. Invoking the protection of God against evil means asking
for everything we need.
This prayer secures us against any kind of machination of the devil
and of the world. Who could be afraid of the world if he has God as his
protector?
You see, brothers and sisters, how amazing the Lord's Prayer is. It
is truly a compendium of all the requests we could possibly make.
Our Lord Jesus Christ who came for all people, for the wise as for the
ignorant, without distinction of sex or age, reduces the precepts of salvation
to the essential minimum. He wants even the simplest to be able to understand
and remember them.
[Breviario Patristico © 1971 Piero Gribaudi Editore, Turin, Italy;
translated by Paul Drake]
| Commentary
on the Lord's Prayer
»
The
Privilege and Responsibility of Calling God Father, by Cyril of Alexandria
»
God
Our Father, by Cyril of Jerusalem
»
Who
art in Heaven, by Gregory of Nyssa
»
Hallowed
by thy Name, by Origen
»
Thy
Kingdom Come, by Origen
»
Thy
will be done, by Origen
»
Give
us our daily bread, by Gregory of Nyssa
»
Forgive
us our trespasses, by Cassian
»
And
lead us not into temptation, by Origen
»
But
deliver us from evil, by Cyprian of Carthage |
