Didache 8

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Fasting

(Matthew 6:16-18)

1Let not your fasts be with the hypocrites, for they fast on Mondays and Thursdays, but do you fast on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Prayers

(Matthew 6:5-15; Luke 11:1-4)

2And do not pray as the hypocrites, but as the Lord commanded in his Gospel, pray thus:

“Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy Name, thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, as in Heaven so also upon earth; give us to-day our daily bread, and forgive us our debt as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into trial, but deliver us from the Evil One, for thine is the power and the glory for ever.”^a 3Pray thus three times a day.

Footnotes

a2 give us to-day our daily — This is the traditional translation of ἐπιούσιον, but it is by no means certain that it is correct. The word has from the beginning been a puzzle, and its meaning is not clearly known. See further any good commentary on the gospels.