For why should the liturgical employment of the last fifteen words of the Lord's Prayer be thought to cast discredit on their genuineness?
In the meantime, the undoubted fact, that for an indefinitely remote period the Lord's Prayer was not publicly recited by the people further than 'But deliver us from evil,'-- a doxology of some sort being invariably added, but pronounced by the priest alone,--this clearly ascertained fact is fully sufficient to account for a phenomenon so ordinary [found indeed so commonly throughout St.Matthew, to say nothing of occurrences in the other Gospels] as really not to require particular explanation, viz.

the omission of the last half of St.
Matthew vi.

13 from Codexes [Symbol: Aleph]BDZ.
FOOTNOTES: [145] [I have retained this passage notwithstanding the objections made in some quarters against similar passages in the companion volume, because I think them neither valid, nor creditable to high intelligence, or to due reverence.] [146] [The Textual student will remember that besides the Lectionaries of the Gospels mentioned here, of which about 1000 are known, there are some 300 more of the Acts and Epistles, called by the name Apostolos.] [147] ['It seems also a singular note of antiquity that the Sabbath and the Sunday succeeding it do as it were cohere, and bear one appellation; so that the week takes its name--_not_ from the Sunday with which it commences, but--from the Saturday-and-Sunday with which it concludes.' Twelve Verses, p.

194, where more particulars are given.] [148] [For the contents of these Tables, see Scrivener's Plain Introduction, 4th edition, vol.i.pp.

80-89.] [149] See Scrivener's Plain Introduction, 4th edition, vol.i.