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Mat 6:12. Καὶ, and) The three remaining petitions regard the commencement, progress and conclusion of our spiritual life in this world; and those who utter them confess, not only their own need, but also their guilt, their peril, and their difficulties. When these have been removed, God is all in all to them, by virtue of the three first petitions.-ὀφειλήματα, debts) In Mat 6:14 we find παραπτώματα, lapses. In Luk 11:4, we have ἁμαρτίας, sins. Cf. Mat 18:24.[263]-Ὡς, as) Before it was “AS in heaven, SO on earth,” now it is “SO in heaven AS on earth.”
[263] We ought not merely in general to pray for deliverance from guilt contracted by our sins; but whoever offends God in this or any other peculiar manner, is bound also specially to acknowledge and pray for deliverance from such offences, and so to give Him the honour due to Him.-V. g.