马太福音 6:6-9 RCUVSS

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 6:8

Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of — We do not pray to inform God of our wants. Omniscient as he is, he cannot be informed of any thing which he knew not before: and he is always willing to relieve them. The chief thing wanting is, a fit disposition on our part to receive his grace and blessing. Consequently, one great office of prayer is, to produce such a disposition in us:... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 6:9

After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.Thus therefore pray ye — He who best knew what we ought to pray for, and how we ought to pray, what matter of desire, what manner of address would most please himself, would best become us, has here dictated to us a most perfect and universal form of prayer, comprehending all our real wants, expressing all our lawful desires; a complete directory and full exercise of all our devotions.Thus — For these... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 6:6

6. Closet The word primarily signifies a locker, or fastened store-room. Hence any private close apartment or chamber. Symbol for any secret retreat. But not only may we be in our closet; our closet may be in us. The innermost prayer of the heart, though in a dense crowd, may be truly the closet prayer. Shut thy door As our Lord is here prescribing a mode of action in opposition to the conduct of the ostentatious hypocrite of his day, he lays a special emphasis upon the particular... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 6:7

7. Vain repetitions The second caution in regard to prayer. Vain repetition, in the Greek, battologia. The word is derived by an ancient lexicographer from Battus, a poet, who composed hymns full of repetitions. More probably, however, the word is made from the sound, like such words as tattle and clatter. The repetitions of a fervent heart are not condemned; but the parrot-like recitation of heartless phrases, as if the mere saying of them over would be a merit. So the Papists... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 6:9

9. After this manner Our Lord now proceeds to give an outline model of prayer, in which is not one word of irrational babble or cant repetition; but in which human wants are condensed and expressed, and human devotions shaped in terms so direct, so simple, so pure, that sinner or saint, philosopher or child, may understand and use them. There is no ground for saying that this formula, called our Lord’s Prayer, was selected by him from Jewish forms. No doubt it embodies petitions used in... read more

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 6:8

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 6:9

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 6:6

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 6:7

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 6:9

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