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Cyprian of Carthage
Catena Aurea · Matthäusevangelium 6
Mt 6, 11English original
Give us this day our daily bread.
(Tr. vii. 14.) Justly therefore does the disciple of Christ make petition for to-day’s provision, without indulging excessive longings in his prayer. It were a self-contradicting and incompatible thing for us who pray that the kingdom of God may quickly come, to be looking unto long life in the world below.