blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit

blending an assortment of thoughts and experiences for my friends, relations and kindred spirit
By Alison Hobbs, blending a mixture of thoughts and experiences for friends, relations and kindred spirits.

Monday, October 19, 2015

The old prayer

My daughter has posted an extraordinary link on Facebook, to show how the Lord's Prayer sounded in its original language, and what it literally meant:
Our heavenly Father, hallowed is your name. Your Kingdom is come. Your will is done, as in heaven so also on earth. Give us the bread for our daily need. And leave us serene, just as we also allowed others serenity. And do not pass us through trial, except separate us from the evil one. For yours is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory.To the end of the universe, of all the universes. Amen.
The reading of the prayer, with its guttural consonants and glottal stops before the vowels, sounds like Arabic to me (although I don't know Arabic)––obviously in the same family of languages, anyhow.

"Temptation" in appears the Anglican Book of Common Prayer seems to have been a misleading translation of the ancient Aramaic word for "trial" and the line about serenity is significantly different from the line in this version that I have known since childhood:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.
Another revelation is that Jesus' name was actually pronounced Eashoa, and that he could imagine "all the universes."

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