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Mat 6:10. Ἐλθέτω-γενηθήτω κ.τ.λ., come-be done, etc.) Tertullian has transposed these two petitions for the sake of his plan. For in his book on prayer, after he has treated of the petition, “Hallowed be Thy name,” he says, “ACCORDING TO THIS FORM, we add, ‘Thy will be done in the heavens and on the earth.’ ” And he then refers the coming of God’s kingdom to the end of the world.-ἡ βασιλεία Σου, Thy kingdom) See Gnomon on ch. Mat 4:17, and Rev 11:15; Rev 11:17. The sanctification of God’s name is as it were derived from the Old Testament into the New, to be continued and increased by us; but the coming of God’s kingdom is in some sort peculiar to the New Testament. Thus with these two petitions respectively, Cf. Rev 4:8; Rev 5:10.-τὸ θέλημα Σου, Thy will) Jesus always kept His Father’s will before His eyes, for His own performance and for ours. See ch. Mat 7:21, Mat 12:50.-ὡς, κ.τ.λ., as, etc.) “It will be the part of the pastor to admonish the faithful, that these words, ‘as in heaven so on earth,’ may be referred to each of the (three) first petitions as, ‘Hallowed be Thy name, as in heaven so on earth,’ also, ‘Thy kingdom come as in heaven so on earth,’ in like manner, ‘Thy will be done as in heaven so on earth.’ ”-ROMAN CATECHISM.[258] The codices however which in Luk 11:2 omit the words, “Thy will be done,” omit also the words, “As in heaven so on earth”-ἐν οὐρανῷ, in heaven) We do not ask that these things may be done in heaven: but heaven is proposed as the normal standard to earth-earth in which all things are done in different ways.[259]
[258] sc. that, issued under the sanction of the Council of Trent.-(I. B.)
[259] In the original “in quâ aliter alia fiunt omnia.”-Lit.: “in which all things are done, some one way, some another.”-i.e. The unvarying uniformity of Heaven, which conforms itself undeviatingly to the Divine Will, should be the standard by which to correct the multiform variety of Earth, the infinite diversities of which are none of them in strict accordance with that Will.-(I. B.)