The Time to Pray

A mysterious word at the center of the Lord’s Prayer has stumped biblical scholars for centuries. It’s the word epi­ousios in verse 11 of Matthew 6, which is translated daily. The trouble with the word is that no one can seem to trace where it came from. Epiousios was so uncommon in the ancient world that the third-century theologian Origen concluded that the Gospel writers had invented it!

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