On Prayer
Tertullian
Chapter 4
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Chapter IV.—The Third Clause.
According to this model, we subjoin, “Thy will be done
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On Prayer
Tertullian
According to this model, we subjoin, “Thy will be done
Mr. Dodgson renders, “next to this clause;” but the “forma” referred to seems, by what Tertullian proceeds to add, to be what he had said above, “not that it becomes us to wish God well,” etc.
We learn from this and other places, that the comparative adverb was wanting in some ancient formulæ of the Lord’s Prayer. [See Routh, Opuscula I. p. 178.]
See note 3.
John vi. 38.
For this use of the word “provoke,” see Heb. x. 24, Eng. ver.
[Something we might think other than good.]
Luke xxii. 42.