![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is some appearance of this petition still remaining, in what the F20 Jews call the short prayer: Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. In this petition the disciples were taught to pray for the success of the Gospel, both among Jews and Gentiles for the conversion of God's elect, in which the kingdom of God would greatly appear, to the destruction of the kingdom of Satan, and the abolition of the kingdom of the beast, in the latter day which will usher in the kingdom, of the mediator, he will receive from his Father, and this will terminate in the kingdom of glory: in a word, not the kingdom of nature and providence is meant, which always was but the kingdom of heaven, which was at hand, nay had taken place, though as yet was not very visible, and which is spiritual in the hearts of God's people, Jews and Gentiles and which will appear exceeding glorious in the latter day, and at last be swallowed up in the ultimate glory all which must be very desirable by the sincere lovers of Jesus Christ. of God, is no prayer and that every prayer, in which there is not ( twklm), "the kingdom", is no prayer.'' ``every blessing, or prayer, in which there is no ( Mvh trbz), "mention made of the name", i.e. Christ alters the expression, leaves out the word "Messiah", and puts it thus, "thy kingdom come", to let them know that the Messiah was come and that it was the kingdom of the Father, in the power of his grace, upon the souls of men, they must pray for and expect: however, he conformed to a rule of their's in this, as well as in the former petition F19 that The form of expression used by the ancient Jews, relating to this article, before the coming of Christ, doubtless was, as it now stands in their prayers F18, ( aby Kxyvm) ( twklm), "the kingdom of thy Messiah come". ![]()
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