'In the Greek copies, after _And deliver us from evil_, follows _For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever_.

But it is to be noted that in the Greek liturgy, after the choir has said _And deliver us from evil_, it is the Priest who responds as above: and those words, according to the Greeks, the priest alone may pronounce.

This makes it probable that the words in question are no integral part of the Lord's Prayer: but that certain copyists inserted them in error, supposing, from their use in the liturgy, that they formed part of the text.' In other words, they represent that men's ears had grown so fatally familiar with this formula from its habitual use in the liturgy, that at last they assumed it to be part and parcel of the Lord's Prayer.

The same statement has been repeated ad nauseam by ten generations of critics for 360 years.

The words with which our Saviour closed His pattern prayer are accordingly rejected as an interpolation resulting from the liturgical practice of the primitive Church.