Matthew 6:9

KJV

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

— Matthew 6:9, King James Version
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Note d'étude

Study Note

The Lord's Prayer's opening address 'Our Father which art in heaven' fuses Jewish intimacy ('Abba') with transcendence ('in heaven'), resisting any domestication of the divine. The prayer's structure — hallowing of the name, coming of the kingdom, doing of the will — establishes that human need (bread, forgiveness, deliverance) is set within the frame of divine glory and purpose, not the reverse. The Aramaic 'Maranatha' ('come, Lord') of 1 Corinthians 16:22 and Revelation 22:20 suggests the petitions for the kingdom's coming were embedded in the earliest Christian eucharistic liturgy. Didache 8:3 provides the earliest extra-canonical evidence for the prayer being recited three times daily, indicating its rapid institutionalisation as the central Christian liturgical text.

Autres traductions

ASV

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

YLT

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

BBE

Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

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