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On the Lord's Prayer

SaintsSt. Cyprian of CarthageOn the Lord's Prayer
On the Lord's PrayerSt. Cyprian of Carthage

On the Lord's Prayer

The oldest Latin commentary on the Our Father

By St. Cyprian of Carthage

51 min · Early Church · Latin West

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Cyprian takes the prayer a phrase at a time and asks, of each one, what it commits the person praying it to. Tertullian set the pattern and Augustine inherited it, but this is the one the Latin Church learned it from.

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Source: St. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lord's Prayer (Treatise IV), written c. 252. Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis. Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 5 (ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe, 1886). Public domain. Source text via Wikisource. Schaff's editorial footnotes are omitted; the text is Cyprian's, unabridged.