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20 f. THE DOXOLOGY
The Vision and the Prayer find their goal in a Doxology, which is at once an adoring recognition of essential facts and the expression of the deepest longing of a grateful heart. Such an ascription of ‘glory’ to God (see Note D on ὁ πατὴρ τῆς δόξης) is the instinctive response of the human heart to any clear token of His presence and working in Nature or in Grace. That presence has now been brought into living and abiding relation to men in the Church on earth as in Christ Jesus in heaven. The acknowledgement of that Presence in the Doxology recalls the vision and strengthens faith and hope in the certainty of the answer that is in store for the prayer. It is a return to the keynote of the Epistle struck in Eph 1:3, when his lips were opened and he spoke blessing God, cf. δύξα in Eph 1:6; Eph 1:12; Eph 1:14.