Lord's Prayer
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The Lord's Prayer, also known by its incipit Our Father, is a central Christian prayer attributed to Jesus. It contains petitions to God focused on God's holiness, will, and kingdom, as well as human
The Lord's Prayer (Le Pater Noster), by James Tissot
Lord's Prayer from the 1845 illuminated book of The Sermon on the Mount, designed by Owen Jones
The Lord's Prayer in Greek
18th-century painting of the Lord's Prayer, on the north side of the chancel of St Mary's Church, Mundon, Essex
Epiousion
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Epiousion is a Koine Greek adjective used in the Lord's Prayer verse "Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον". Because the word is used nowhere else, its meaning is unclear. It is traditionally
Lord's Prayer
…the "Your will be done" and the "Rescue us from the evil one" (or "Deliver us from evil") petitions. Both original Greek texts contain the adjective epiousion; while controversial, 'daily' has been the most common English-language translation of this word. Protestants usually conclude the prayer with a doxology…
Page 20 of Novum Testamentum Polyglotton (1866), showing Matthew 6:9–13 with parallel Greek, Latin, German, and English texts containing ἐπιούσιον.
Jesus teaching the Lord's Prayer to his disciples, as imagined by James Tissot (late 19th century).