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The Beatitudes: Blessed Is Not a Reward (1 of 9)
Read as a checklist they become nine conditions to satisfy. What the word actually describes, and why poor in spirit means something specific in Isaiah.
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Our Father: What Jesus Set Aside to Say It (2 of 9)
He prayed in Aramaic rather than Hebrew and dropped the God of Abraham formula. Both choices did something, and one of them made every language usable.
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Thy Kingdom Come and the Bread That Lasts (3 of 9)
The prayer asks for the kingdom on earth, not for heaven after death. And the daily bread request may be asking about a different fear than we assume.
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Forgive Us Our Debts and Deliver Us From Evil (4 of 9)
The Aramaic word means debts and sins at once, so the choice English translators face was never in the original. And temptation is probably the wrong word.