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116 Luke Expresses the Substance of These Seven Petitions More Briefly in Five PL 40, 286
But the Evangelist Luke in his version of the Lord’s prayer embraces not seven, but five petitions: not, of course, that there is any discrepancy between the two evangelists, but that Luke indicates by his very brevity the mode in which the seven petitions of Matthew are to be understood. For God’s name is hallowed in the spirit; and God’s kingdom shall come in the resurrection of the body. Luke, therefore, intending to show that the third petition is a sort of repetition of the first two, has chosen to indicate that by omitting the third altogether. Then he adds three others: one for daily bread, another for pardon of sin, another for immunity from temptation. And what Matthew puts as the last petition, “but deliver us from evil,” Luke has omitted, to show us that it is embraced in the previous petition about temptation. Matthew, indeed, himself says, “but deliver,” not “and deliver,” as if to show that the petitions are virtually one: do not this, but this; so that every man is to understand that he is delivered from evil in the very fact of his not being led into temptation.
Petitiones tantum quinque apud Lucam, qui cum Matthaeo conciliatur. Evangelista vero Lucas in oratione dominica petitiones non septem, sed quinque complexus est: nec ab isto utique discrepavit, sed quomodo istae septem sint intelligendae, ipsa sua brevitate commonuit. Nomen quippe Dei sanctificatur in spiritu, Dei autem regnum in carnis resurrectione venturum est. Ostendens ergo Lucas tertiam petitionem duarum superiorum esse quodam modo repetitionem, magis eam praetermittendo facit intelligi. Deinde tres alias adjungit, de pane quotidiano, de remissione peccatorum, de tentatione vitanda . At vero quod ille in ultimo posuit, Sed libera nos a malo; iste non posuit, ut intelligeremus ad illud superius quod de tentatione dictum est, pertinere. Ideo quippe ait, Sed libera; non ait, Et libera, tanquam unam petitionem esse demonstrans (noli hoc, sed hoc): ut sciat unusquisque in eo se liberari a malo, quod non infertur in tentationem.