Our daily bread (τον αρτον ημων τον επιουσιον). This adjective "daily" (επιουσιον) coming after "Give us this day" (δος ημιν σημερ…

Give us this day, etc. The word bread here denotes, doubtless, everything necessary to sustain life (Matthew 4:4; [Reference D…

Give us this day our daily bread — A surprising obscurity hangs over these words that are so familiar to us. The word translated "…

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it i…

St. Augustine of Hippo: The three things requested in the previous petitions begin here on earth and increase in us according to…

The last petitions explicitly request things for ourselves. The first is “bread” (GK 788), a term used to cover all food (cf.[Reference Proverbs 30…

Give us today our daily bread. This part of the prayer form Christ prescribed to us may be called, as I have said, the Second Table. I hav…

Give us this day our daily bread .
The Arabic version reads it, "our bread for tomorrow"; and Jerom says, that in th…

Christ saw it necessary to show His disciples what must commonly be the subject and method of their prayer. Not that we are restricted to the use o…

Therefore, this is how you shall pray. Above, the Lord taught the manner of praying: namely, that we avoid both the vanit…