Prayer: Cyprian on the Lord's Prayer as Model
Teaching on Prayer from Cyprian of Carthage: Cyprian on the Lord's Prayer as Model
This is a spiritual discipline on lord's Prayer and communal prayer, drawing on Matthew 6:9-13, Luke 11:1-4 and 1 Timothy 2:1.
Cyprian of Carthage (d. 258) wrote a full treatise on the Lord's Prayer, one of the earliest extended commentaries on this foundational prayer. He taught: "What prayer could be more spiritual than that given to us by Christ, by whom also the Holy Spirit was given to us? What praying to the Father could be more truthful than that which was delivered to us by the Son who is truth?"…
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