Sunday, October 19, 2014

More on the Doxology in the Sermon on the Mount

The three-member doxology, which is usual in our services, is missing in the best manuscripts. But 2 Tim 4:18 and the doxology in Did. 8:2 which, according to the custom of the Didache (10:5) has two members, show that the Lord’s Prayer was prayed in the Greek church from the beginning with a doxology.


Ulrich Luz, Matthew 1-7, 385 as cited by Patrick D. Miller, They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1994), 438 n. 118.