Having elsewhere considered St.Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer[168], I will in this place discuss the genuineness of the doxology with which the Lord's Prayer concludes in St.Matt.vi.

13[169],--[Greek: hoti sou estin he basileia kai he dynamis kai he doxa eis tous aionas.

amen],--words which for 360 years have been rejected by critical writers as spurious, notwithstanding St.Paul's unmistakable recognition of them in 2 Tim.
iv.

18,--which alone, one would have thought, should have sufficed to preserve them from molestation.
The essential note of primitive antiquity at all events these fifteen words enjoy in perfection, being met with in all copies of the Peshitto:--and this is a far weightier consideration than the fact that they are absent from most of the Latin copies.

Even of these however four (k f g^{1} q) recognize the doxology, which is also found in Cureton's Syriac and the Sahidic version; the Gothic, the Ethiopic, Armenian, Georgian, Slavonic, Harkleian, Palestinian, Erpenius' Arabic, and the Persian of Tawos; as well as in the [Greek: Didache] (with variations); Apostolical Constitutions (iii.