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MATTHEW 6:10 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Matt 6:9Matt 6:11
“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. The second and third petitions: kingdom come, will done. The kingdom coming is the reign of God becoming the organizing reality of all human life, as it is already the organizing reality of heaven. Your will be done is not resignation to whatever happens but active desire for God's purposes to be accomplished throughout the world. The on earth as it is in heaven locates the prayer in eschatological hope: the earth will be transformed to reflect what heaven already is. Revelation 21:1–5 describes the new creation where heaven and earth merge; the Lord's Prayer asks for that future to begin arriving in the present. These two petitions together communicate that the disciple's primary desire is not personal benefit but the Father's purposes.

Church Fathers on Matthew 6:10

It follows suitably, that after our adoption as sons, we should ask a kingdom which is due to sons.

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation · ord.

This is not so said as though God did not now reign on earth, or had not reigned over it always. 'Come,' must therefore be taken for 'be manifested to men.' For none shall then be ignorant of His kingdom, when His Only-begotten not in understanding only, but in visible shape shall come to judge the quick and dead. This day of judgment the Lord teaches shall then come, when the Gospel shall have been preached to all nations; which thing pertains to the hallowing of God’s name.

Augustine · 4th century · Serm. in Mont., ii, 6

Either it is a general prayer for the kingdom of the whole world that the reign of the Devil may cease; or for the kingdom in each of us that God may reign there, and that sin may not reign in our mortal body.

Jerome · 4th century
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