Tertullian On Fasting
in our ordinary prayer likewise commanding us to request "bread,"[107]
Didache
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us to-day our daily (needful) bread,[83]
Verse Matthew 6:11. _GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD_] The word επιουσιαν has greatly perplexed critics and commentators. I find upwards of thirty different explanations of it. It is found in no Gre...
This passage contains the Lord’s prayer, a composition unequalled for comprehensiveness and for beauty. It is supposed that some of these petitions were taken from those in common use among the Jews....
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The Better Righteousness.(Matthew 6:1 .) 2. Kept in the World; Single-eyed; Trusting God.(Matthew 6:19 .)_ Our Lord said: “For I say unto you, that unless your righteousness surpass th...
THE FULFILLED LAW IN RELATION TO THE LIFE OF THE PHARISEES. Mt. only, though the digression on Prayer (Matthew 6:7) has parallels in Lk. MATTHEW 6:1 is a general warning; three aspects of the mechani...
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. The second part of the prayer he gives here, with the petition for daily bread, the fourth petition of the prayer. We are bidden to ask for our bread, not for future...
THE REWARD MOTIVE IN THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Matthew 6:1-18) When we study the opening verses of Matthew 6:1-34, we are immediately confronted with one most important question-- What is the place of the...
So, then, pray in this way: Our Father in heaven, let your name be held holy: Let your Kingdom come: Let your will be done, as in heaven, so upon earth: Give us to-day bread for the coming day: Forgiv...
DAILY. Greek. _epiousios._. word coined by our Lord, and used only here and Luke 11:3, by Him. Compounded from _epi =_ upon (App-104.), and _ousios =_ coming. This is derived from _eimi_. to come or g...
_this day_ In Luke, "day by day." _our daily bread_ The Greek word translated "daily" occurs only in the Lord's Prayer here and Luke 11:3, it is not found in any classical author. The rendering of the...
The Lord's Prayer St Luke 11:2-4, where the prayer is found in a different connection, and is given by our Lord in answer to a request from the disciples to teach them to pray, "even as John taught h...
THE LORD’S PRAYER St Luke 11:2-4, where the prayer is found in a different connection, and is given by our Lord in answer to a request from the disciples to teach them to pray, ‘even as John taught h...
ἌΡΤΟΝ, ‘Bread,’ primarily in a literal sense, subsistence as distinct from luxury; but the spiritual meaning cannot be excluded, Christ the Bread of Life is the Christian’s daily food. The address to...
VER 11. "GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD." Aug., Enchir., 115: These three things therefore which have been asked in the foregoing petitions, are begun here on earth, and according to our proficiency...
_THE ACTION OF PRAYING MATTHEW 6:5-15_ : Prayer is to be a simple petition from a child (Christian) to his Father (God). We are not to pray to be "seen of men" but to be "heard of God." Prayer involve...
ΕΠΙΟΎΣΙΟΣ (G1967) на наступающий день (RWP). "Хлеб, нужный нам, дай нам сегодня, и изо дня в день" (_см._ Hagner; Harrington). Об этом переводе и изысканиях относительно данного слова _см._ TDNT; BAGD...
DISCOURSE: 1315 THE LORD’S PRAYER Matthew 6:11. _Give us this day our daily bread_. IN those petitions which relate to the glory of God, that occurs first which is the most comprehensive and the most...
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD— 4. The word επιουσιον rendered _daily_ in our version, is nowhere else to be found; neither in the LXX, nor in any Greek author, nor in any place of the New Testament...
D. THE MOTIVES OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN (Matthew 6:1-18) 3. HIS MOTIVE FOR PRAYING TO GOD. (Matthew 6:5-15,) TEXT: 6:5-15 5. And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to s...
Give us this day our daily bread. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. The compound word here rendered "daily" [ epiousios (G1967)] occurs nowhere else, either in classical or sacred Greek, and so mus...
1 The Pharisees deemed alms-giving, prayer and fasting the three most eminent exhibitions of piety, for alms was the ideal expression of their relation to their neighbor, prayer of their intercourse w...
6:11 bread, (d-6) Or 'our bread till to-morrow,' i.e. 'daily' in the sense of 'till to-morrow.' What was directly and immediately for them or their need, and not to surround them with abundance....
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD] We are not taught to pray for bread for many days, but for one day, God thereby reminding us of our continual dependence upon Him. Nor are we taught to pray for luxur...
THE EARTHLY TREASURE AND THE HEAVENLY TREASURE. When do we lay up 'treasure in heaven'? Whenever we give alms (Matthew 6:2), or pray (Matthew 6:5), or fast (Matthew 6:16), to please God rather than ma...
MAXIMS FOR PRAYER, AND THE LORD'S PRAYER. Perhaps the most significant v. of this section is Matthew 6:8, 'Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.' Christians, therefore, a...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) 1. God's approval, not man's, to be sought in all our actions. Jesus does not say that we are to do good expecting no reward of any kind, but that we are to look fo...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 THE RIGHT WAY TO GIVE GIFTS 6:1-4 V1 ‘Be careful not to show how good you are in front of other people. Do not do your good works...
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. — A strange obscurity hangs over the words that are so familiar to us. The word translated “daily” is found nowhere else, with the one exception of the parallel passa...
CHAPTER 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
_Further instruction in prayer_. Weiss (Mt.-Evan.) regards this passage as an interpolation, having no proper place in an anti-Pharisaic discourse. Both the opinion and its ground are doubtful. As reg...
_The Lord's Prayer_. Again, in Luke 11:1-4 _vide_ notes there. Here I remark only that Luke's form, true reading, is shorter than Matthew's. On this ground Kamphausen (_Das Gebet des Herrn_) argues fo...
_Fourth petition_. τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν : whatever the adjective qualifying ἄρτον may mean, it may be taken for granted that it is ordinary bread, food for the body, that is intended. All spiritualising mys...
HOW TO PRAY AND HOW TO FAST Matthew 6:9-18 This might more fitly be termed the “disciples' prayer.” As we tread its stately aisles, we cannot but think of the myriads who have stood on the same pavem...
In the first verse the Revised Version has substituted the word "righteousness" for "alms," "a reading approved of, almost unanimously, by the great editors and critics" (Morrison). This is a statemen...
Give us this day our (d) daily bread. (d) That which is suitable for our nature for our daily food, or such as may suffice our nature and complexion....
Our supersubstantial bread. [2] So it is at present in the Latin text: yet the same Greek word in St. Luke, is translated daily bread, as we say it in our Lord's prayer, and as it was used to be said...
CHAPTER 16 SERMON ON THE MOUNT Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over it, and visiting the places of...
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. We have here the pattern of prayer; which the LORD JESUS himself hath...
God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
_GOD’S WILL IN WORSHIP AND WORK_ ‘Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.’ Matthew 6:10 Is not this impossible? Is it not impossible that God’s will should ever be done here on earth as it i...
_ONLY BREAD_ ‘Give us this day our daily bread.’ Matthew 6:11 How small a part of this model prayer is devoted to our bodily necessities! One single petition is all, and this of the simplest kind....
11._Give us today our daily bread _Of the form of prayer which Christ has prescribed to us this may be called, as I have said, the Second Table. I have adopted this mode of dividing it for the sake of...
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly...
GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. The Arabic version reads it, "our bread for tomorrow"; and Jerom says, that in the Hebrew Gospel, used by the Nazarenes, he found the word מחר, which signifies "tomor...
Give us this day our daily bread. Ver. 11. _Give us this day_] We have not a bit of bread of our own earning, but must get our living by begging. Peter himself was to obtain his very bread by humble...
Mat. 6:10, 11. "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread." The order of these petitions is agreeable to the direction given in verse Matthew 6:...
_Give us this day our daily bread_ As the original word, επιουσιον, here rendered _daily_, is not found anywhere else; neither in the LXX. nor in any Greek author, nor in any other part of the New Tes...
Temporal gifts are also included: GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD. In putting the petition in this form, Christ teaches humility and frugality. For this day we pray, taking no thought for the morrow,...
Verse 1 warns against practicing righteousness (margin) before men to attract their attention. This is self-righteousness, a mere show. How can we expect the Father to reward what we do merely to impr...
9-15 Christ saw it needful to show his disciples what must commonly be the matter and method of their prayer. Not that we are tied up to the use of this only, or of this always; yet, without doubt, i...
And forasmuch as in thee we live, and move, and have our life, so the means for the upholding and the preserving of our lives, and the blessing upon them, must be from thee. We beseech thee to give us...
Matthew 6:11 Give G1325 (G5628) us G2254 day G4594 our G2257 daily G1967 bread G740...
THEIR RELIGIOUS EXERCISES ARE TO BE KNOWN ONLY TO THE FATHER AND NOT TO MEN (6:1-18). We will now, therefore, initially consider together the first four passages which deal with their religious behavi...
HOW TO PRAY - THE LORD'S PRAYER (6:9-15). The Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9). We should note in using the description ‘The Lord's Prayer' that this is not to be seen as how the Lord Himself actually pra...
‘Give us this day our tomorrow's (epiousion) bread.' How the significance of this petition depends very much on the meaning of ‘epiousion'. The problem is that this word is otherwise unknown to us pri...
Our Lord passes from moral to religious duties, enjoining a ‘righteousness' (Matthew 6:1), which exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees (‘hypocrites'), and has regard to the character of our ‘Fathe...
GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
Matthew 6:11. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD _(fourth petition)._ First of the second division relative to our wants. These are subordinate, but not opposed, to the subjects of the previous petition...
Matthew 6:5-15. SECOND EXAMPLE (_Prayer)._...
OUR DAILY BREAD (τον αρτον ημων τον επιουσιον). This adjective "daily" (επιουσιον) coming after "Give us this day" (δος ημιν σημερον) has given expositors a great deal of trouble. The effort has bee...
Matthew 6:9 (with Matthew 7:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:17; James 4:3; Jame
Matthew 6:11 I. The Giver of bread is our Father in heaven. God is the only giver, and yet least recognized. Because He gives so constantly, so quietly, we forget to notice and to thank Him. (1) God...
Matthew 6:5. _And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men._ We oug...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven._ The motive which leads a man to give, will form the tr...
CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Formalism condemned. The new revelation of prayer (disciples prayer). The law of riches. Cure of anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus. CONCLUSION: True relationsh...
Matthew 6:1. _Take heed that ye do not your alms before men._ It is a dispute whether alms or righteousness be the true reading. The old copies had righteousness. Chrysostom in one place has righteous...
GIVE US TODAY THE FOOD WE NEED. This, and the phrases which follow speak to our individual needs. It is right and proper to pray for material things. Note that we pray for "today," not for future year...
_Our dally bread._ DAILY BREAD 1. That even the wants of our bodies are to be subordinated to the purposes of religion. 2. That our dependence upon God for the supply of our bodily wants ought to b...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:11 The fourth petition focuses on the disciples’ DAILY BREAD, which includes all of their daily physical needs. ⇐...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:9 Jesus gives his disciples an example to follow when praying. The prayer consists of an invocation and six petitions. ⇐...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 6:5 Prayer was also expected of God’s people. Public prayer was a common practice in NT times. ⇐...
JESUS TEACHES ON PRAYER MATTHEW 6:9-13; LUKE 11:2-4; MATTHEW 6:9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. L
CHAPTER 6 _Take heed_. &c. Instead of _alms_, some Greek Codices read _δικαιοσύνην, righteousness_, or _justice._ This is the reading of the Syriac and the Latin Vulgate. The Complutensian, Royal, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 6:1. ALMS.—_Righteousness_ (R.V.) is probably correct and shows the connection between this chapter and the preceding, better than “alms.” In ch. Matthew 5:20, the disciples a...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 6:1 _The_ _relation of our Lord and his disciples to the religion of the day _(_continued_);_ vide _Matthew 5:17, note. (_b_) Our Lord turns from cases which could be directly dedu...
Tonight let's take a look at Matthew, chapter six. We are in the section of the book of Matthew that is commonly called the Sermon on the Mount because it was delivered to the disciples of Jesus on th...
1 Timothy 6:8; 2 Thessalonians 3:12; Exodus 16:16; Isaiah 33:16;...
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED) Matthew 5:43; _Matthew 6:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is only natural. But...
Give us — O Father (for we claim nothing of right, but only of thy free mercy) this day — (for we take no thought for the morrow) our daily bread — All things needful for our souls and bodies: not onl...