Our Father/Lord's Prayer

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In the catholic version of the Our Father, the last line is, “lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the Evil One”. In he Protestant form, it continues “For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever”. The same diff is in cath, protestant bibles. Why the difference?:confused:
 
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In the catholic version of the Our Father, the last line is, “lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the Evil One”. In he Protestant form, it continues “For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever”. The same diff is in cath, protestant bibles. Why the difference?:confused:
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Think about the prayer in its context in the mass…Do you recognise the Protestant wording? Have you checked out the Bible?
 
Ironically, the version without the “For Thine…” is the “Biblical” Version. The Doxology has been added from the Liturgy. Funny that the Protestants should insist on it.😃
 
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In the catholic version of the Our Father, the last line is, “lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the Evil One”. In he Protestant form, it continues “For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever and ever”. The same diff is in cath, protestant bibles. Why the difference?:confused:
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This is one of those subtle “little traditions” that Protestants don’t like to admit to. 😉

In the Catholic Church, doxologies were added by priests and bishops as part of their closing remarks to their sermons when quoting scripture in the earlier days of the Catholic Church. Apparently some of the scribes who had heard this traditional doxology thought it was always part of the manuscript since it quite popular and orally spoken so often.

This particular doxology to the Lord’s Prayer appears in the Catholic Didache and was never in original scripture manuscripts. It is in fact Catholic Liturgy - part of the Catholic Tradition. Apparently the Protestants liked this part of Catholic Liturgy and forgot that it was not part of scripture. Unlike the rigor and discipline of the OT Jewish scribes it was not uncommon for New Testament Christian scribes to embellish things in the margins. These eventually got worked into the bible by editors.

I find it all kind of humorous that the Sola Scripturists insist on “scripture alone” and still can not escape Catholic Tradition no matter how hard they try or think they have. Now they just become our strongest advocates to accept Catholic Tradition as “scripture” and insist that its “inspired”. I couldn’t agree more.😃

In a twist of irony Catholics don’t hardly say the doxology to the Lord’s Prayer very often anymore. Apparently its lost its popularity every since the Protestant’s claimed this tradition as as theirs. 😃

James
 
If I remember the article I read in Catholic Answers, when the Catholic Church found the addition not being part of scripture it was removed. Over a period of time the Protestants realized the Catholic Church was right and removed it also. Most bibles do not have it anymore.
 
Thanks all. I looked up the prayer in a protestant bible, and it mentions that the doxology wasn’t in the original scriptures.
 
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