The Lord's Prayer

A few unusual words in the prayer that Jesus taught

Three of the Greek words in the Lord's Prayer are unusual enough to deserve their own entry. Epiousios — the daily bread word — appears almost nowhere else in surviving Greek literature, and its precise sense has been debated since Jerome. Peirasmos — the testing — is the same word James uses when he says God tempts no one. Anaideia — shamelessness — is the trait of the friend at midnight in the parable Luke pairs with the Prayer.

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