The wonder would have been if they did.
Much stress has been laid on the silence of certain of the Greek Fathers concerning the doxology although they wrote expressly on the Lord's Prayer; as Origen, Gregory of Nyssa[171], Cyril of Jerusalem, Maximus.
Those who have attended most to such subjects will however bear me most ready witness, that it is never safe to draw inferences of the kind proposed from the silence of the ancients.

What if they regarded a doxology, wherever found, as hardly a fitting subject for exegetical comment?
But however their silence is to be explained, it is at least quite certain that the reason of it is not because their copies of St.
Matthew were unfurnished with the doxology.

Does any one seriously imagine that in A.D.650, when Maximus wrote, Evangelia were, in this respect, in a different state from what they are at present?
The sum of what has been offered may be thus briefly stated:--The textual perturbation observable at St.Matt.vi.

13 is indeed due to a liturgical cause, as the critics suppose.

But then it is found that not the great bulk of the Evangelia, but only Codd.