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== Commentary in the Catechism ==
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: This petition goes to the root of the preceding one, for our sins result from our consenting to temptation; we therefore ask our Father not to "lead" us into temptation. It is difficult to translate the Greek verb used by a single English word: the Greek means both '''"do not allow us to enter into temptation"''' and '''"do not let us yield to temptation."'''<ref>Cf. Mt 26:41.</ref> "God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one";<ref>Jas 1:13.</ref> on the contrary, he wants to set us free from evil. We ask him not to allow us to take the way that leads to sin. We are engaged in the battle "between flesh and spirit"; this petition implores the Spirit of discernment and strength.
: This petition goes to the root of the preceding one, for our sins result from our consenting to temptation; we therefore ask our Father not to "lead" us into temptation. It is difficult to translate the Greek verb used [&#949;&#953;&#963;&#949;&#957;&#949;&#947;&#954;&#951;&#962;] by a single English word: the Greek means both '''"do not allow us to enter into temptation"''' and '''"do not let us yield to temptation."'''<ref>Cf. Mt 26:41.</ref> "God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one";<ref>Jas 1:13.</ref> on the contrary, he wants to set us free from evil. We ask him not to allow us to take the way that leads to sin. We are engaged in the battle "between flesh and spirit"; this petition implores the Spirit of discernment and strength.


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Revision as of 12:13, 12 September 2011

The Greek

Mt 6:13
και μη εισενεγκης ημας εις πειρασμον

Commentary in the Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church, #2846-2849

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This petition goes to the root of the preceding one, for our sins result from our consenting to temptation; we therefore ask our Father not to "lead" us into temptation. It is difficult to translate the Greek verb used [εισενεγκης] by a single English word: the Greek means both "do not allow us to enter into temptation" and "do not let us yield to temptation."[1] "God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one";[2] on the contrary, he wants to set us free from evil. We ask him not to allow us to take the way that leads to sin. We are engaged in the battle "between flesh and spirit"; this petition implores the Spirit of discernment and strength.
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The Holy Spirit makes us discern between trials, which are necessary for the growth of the inner man,[3] and temptation, which leads to sin and death.[4] We must also discern between being tempted and consenting to temptation. Finally, discernment unmasks the lie of temptation, whose object appears to be good, a "delight to the eyes" and desirable,[5] when in reality its fruit is death.
God does not want to impose the good, but wants free beings. . . . There is a certain usefulness to temptation. No one but God knows what our soul has received from him, not even we ourselves. But temptation reveals it in order to teach us to know ourselves, and in this way we discover our evil inclinations and are obliged to give thanks for the goods that temptation has revealed to us.[6]
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"Lead us not into temptation" implies a decision of the heart: "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. . . . No one can serve two masters."[7] "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit."[8] In this assent to the Holy Spirit the Father gives us strength. "No testing has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also provide the way of escape, so that you may be able to endure it."[9]
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Such a battle and such a victory become possible only through prayer. It is by his prayer that Jesus vanquishes the tempter, both at the outset of his public mission and in the ultimate struggle of his agony.[10] In this petition to our heavenly Father, Christ unites us to his battle and his agony. He urges us to vigilance of the heart in communion with his own. Vigilance is "custody of the heart," and Jesus prayed for us to the Father: "Keep them in your name."[11] The Holy Spirit constantly seeks to awaken us to keep watch.[12] Finally, this petition takes on all its dramatic meaning in relation to the last temptation of our earthly battle; it asks for final perseverance. "Lo, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is he who is awake."[13]

References

  1. ↑ Cf. Mt 26:41.
  2. ↑ Jas 1:13.
  3. ↑ Cf. Lk 8:13-15; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; 2 Tim 3:12.
  4. ↑ Cf. Jas 1:14-15.
  5. ↑ Cf. Gen 3:6.
  6. ↑ Origen, De orat. 29:PG 11,544CD.
  7. ↑ Mt 6:21, 24.
  8. ↑ Gal 5:25.
  9. ↑ 1 Cor 10:13.
  10. ↑ Cf. Mt 4:1-11; 26:36-44.
  11. ↑ Jn 17:11; cf. Mk 13:9,23,33-37; 14:38; Lk 12:35-40.
  12. ↑ Cf. 1 Cor 16:13; Col 4:2; 1 Thess 5:6; 1 Pet 5:8.
  13. ↑ Rev 16:15.

"Pray not to be put to the test."

Agony in the Garden.

Last supper in Luke (?): "You will be sifted like wheat, but I have prayed for you."

Pray to overcome temptation

let us not succumb to temptation

do not desert us when we are tempted

we need your help to turn away from sin

May we follow you when you lead us away from temptation.

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