COMMENT Luke 11:1-4 'give us each day our daily bread' v.3

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Dear William,

Many thanks for filling up the gaps of the Scholars Version of Luke 11;3-4. 

Your textual coverage backs up with the Mysticism of Tauler and the Biblical Theolgy of Benedict XVI.  

Story upon story mounts in a high rise edifice growing in our interest.

For the moment, Amazon has not yet produced the the COMPLETE GOSPELS.

Yours 

Donald. 

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From: William J ...
To: Donald ....
Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 7:33
Subject: Luke 11 verses 3 & 4 non-canonical reflections

Dear Father Donald,

I am 'away over hill and moorland' following the footpath map drawn by Joachim Jeremias on his journey through the other 'sayings' of Jesus, and today there are two vistas.

Scholars Version: 11:3 "Provide us with the bread we need day by day".

Footnote: The meaning of the Greek word epiousios is disputed. Possible translations are 'daily', 'for sustenance', and 'for the future'. Its only certain occurrence in the Greek language is in the Lord's Prayer.

Margin: parallel passage - the Gospel of the Nazoreans [3], a narrative gospel closely related to the Gospel of Matthew, which like the other Jewish-Christian gosples, is preserved only in a few quotations and citations in the writings of early Christian authors.

Quote - reported by St. Jerome in his commentary of Matthew 6:11: "In the so-called Gospel of the Hebrews, instead of "the bread we need for the day", I found "mahar" , which means "for tomorrow", so the sense is "Provide us today with the bread we need for tomorrow" - that is, for the future".

Scholars Version: 11:4 "Forgive our sins, since we too forgive everyone in debt to us. And please don't subject us to test after test."

Margin: compare - the Secret Book of James [4:2], which manuscript relates that 550 days after Jesus' resurrection and immediately prior to his ascension, Jesus imparted a private revelation to James and Peter. The account of this revelation is a "secret book", which James introduces in the framework of a letter. It makes use of various sayings traditions, some of which appear in the New Testament gospels, while others are preserved only in 'Secret James'.

Text [4] "And I responded, "Lord, we can obey you if you wish, for we have forsaken our fathers and our mothers and our villages and have followed you. Give us the means, [then], not to be tempted by the evil devil". The Lord replied, "If you do the Father's will, what credit is that to you - unless he gives you, as part of his gift, your being tempted by Satan? But if you are oppressed by Satan, and are persecuted, and you do his will, I [say] that he will love you, and make you equal with me, and will regard [you] as having become [beloved] through his providence according to your own choice,"

Footnote: "providence....choice" - refers to the tension between predestination and the exercise of one's free will.

What reflections over the horizon - if not lights themselves - these passages provide!

. . . in Our Lord,

William