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23 lines
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\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnEpiousios}{
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epiousios: This word appears nowhere else in Greek. Not once, before Matthew and Luke used it in Matt 6:11 and Luke 11:3,
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and never again in another several centuries of living Greek (apart from writers quoting the Lord's Prayer).
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Origen (3rd century), considered perhaps the greatest Bible scholar of antiquity, when Greek was still a living language,
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said he couldn't find it anywhere either — no author, sacred or secular.
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It looks like it was coined for this prayer.
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\fnPar
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Two guesses exist. It could come from epi (``upon'') + ousia (``being,'' ``substance.'')
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When Jerome translated the Bible into Latin (the ``Vulgate''--- the Latin
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translation upon which the Catholic Church relied for over a millenium), he translated as ``supersubstantial'' in Matthew,
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but ``daily'' in Luke. Same word.
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\fnPar
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Or it comes from epi + a participle of "to come" — "the coming day's bread." Most lexicons favor this now.
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"Daily" splits the difference. It fits neither guess exactly. It just sounds safe.
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I've left it untranslated. You're standing where Origen stood. No easy word fixes this.
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\fnPar
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Speaking personally, considering \Iesous' teaching in general, the idea that he's speaking here of
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some sort of spiritual bread has a certain appeal.
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}
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\fi
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