The Lord Knows Before You Ask
| Matthew half dozen:8 | |
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| ← half dozen:vii 6:9 → | |
 "The Sermon on the Mount" past Rudolf Yelin d.Ä. (1864-1940). Kirche in Reinerzau im Schwarzwald (1912). | |
| Volume | Gospel of Matthew |
| Christian Bible part | New Testament |
Matthew 6:eight is the 8th verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is role of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse continues the discussion on the proper procedure for praying.
Content [edit]
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:
- Be not ye therefore similar unto them: for your Begetter
- knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
The World English Bible translates the passage as:
- Therefore don't be like them, for your Father
- knows what things you need, before you ask him.
The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
- μὴ οὖν ὁμοιωθῆτε αὐτοῖς
- οἶδεν γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὧν χρείαν ἔχετε πρὸ τοῦ ὑμᾶς αἰτῆσαι αὐτόν.
For a collection of other versions run across here: Matthew 6:8
Analysis [edit]
Jesus has simply condemned the lengthy prayers of the Gentiles, and in this verse states that such prayers are unnecessary equally God is aware of a person'due south desire even before they ask. A similar argument is made at Isaiah 65:24.
This raises the question of why prayer is fifty-fifty necessary at all, and this issue has been much discussed by theologians. The most common view is that while God does not need prayer, humans do. Hendriksen states that while God conspicuously does non need the bodily deed of prayer, each person does need such an outlet to bare their soul.[1] Fowler believes this use of the term "your Father" is meant to enhance this fatherly attribute of God.[2] Co-ordinate to Schweizer prayer is a gift from God for the comfort of humans, not an activity performed to seek a reward.[3] Fowler presents an alternate thesis that what Jesus is saying here is that, dissimilar in pagan prayers, there is no need to persuade or cajole God in prayer, God already knows all one's needs and a simple and sincere prayer would be the most effective.[4]
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Augustine: For we use many words and then when we accept to instruct one who is in ignorance, what demand of them to Him who is Creator of all things; Your heavenly Father knoweth what ye have need of before you ask Him.
Jerome: On this there starts upwardly a heresy of certain Philosophers who taught the mistaken dogma, that If God knows for what we shall pray, and, before nosotros ask, knows what we need, our prayer is needlessly made to one who has such knowledge. To such we shortly reply, That in our prayers we practise not instruct, simply entreat; it is 1 thing to inform the ignorant, another to beg of the understanding: the first were to teach; the latter is to perform a service of duty.
Chrysostom: You practise not and then pray in order to teach God your wants, but to move Him, that you may become His friend by the importunity of your applications to Him, that you lot may exist humbled, that you may exist reminded of your sins.
Augustine: Nor ought nosotros to employ words in seeking to obtain of God what we would, but to seek with intense and fervent application of mind, with pure honey, and suppliant spirit.
Augustine: But even with words we ought at certain periods to make prayer to God, that by these signs of things nosotros may proceed ourselves in mind, and may know what progress we have fabricated in such desire, and may stir up ourselves more actively to increase this desire, that subsequently information technology take begun to wax warm, it may not exist chilled and utterly frozen up by divers cares, without our continual care to keep it alive. Words therefore are needful for us that nosotros should be moved by them, that nosotros should sympathize conspicuously what it is we enquire, not that we should think that past them the Lord is either instructed or persuaded.
Augustine: Still it may exist asked, what is the use of prayer at all, whether made in words or in meditation of things, if God knows already what is necessary for united states of america. The mental posture of prayer calms and purifies the soul, and makes it of more capacity to receive the divine gifts which are poured into information technology. For God does not hear us for the prevailing strength of our pleadings; He is at all times fix to requite us His light, only we are non ready to receive it, but prone to other things. At that place is then in prayer a turning of the body to God, and a purging of the inward eye, whilst those worldly things which we desired are shut out, that the middle of the heed fabricated single might be able to bear the unmarried low-cal, and in information technology abide with that joy with which a happy life is perfected.
References [edit]
- ^ Hendriksen, William. The Gospel of Matthew. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1976
- ^ Fowler, Harold. The Gospel of Matthew: Volume One. Joplin: College Press, 1968
- ^ Schweizer, Eduard. The Practiced News Co-ordinate to Matthew. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1975
- ^ Fowler, Harold. The Gospel of Matthew: Volume One. Joplin: College Press, 1968
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_6:8
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