of St.Matt.vi.

13,--'_For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever.

Amen._' On the other hand, the inference from a careful survey of so many Oriental liturgies is inevitable.

The universal prevalence of a doxology of some sort at the end of the Lord's Prayer; the general prefix 'for thine'; the prevailing mention therein of 'the kingdom and the power and the glory'; the invariable reference to Eternity:--all this constitutes a weighty corroboration of the genuineness of the form in St.Matthew.
Eked out with a confession of faith in the Trinity, and otherwise amplified as piety or zeal for doctrinal purity suggested, every liturgical formula of the kind is clearly derivable from the form of words in St.Matt.vi.

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