3S8 GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CHAP. XI. kingdom come,to the end that may be put down allthe rule, authority,and power, and kingdom of the world,together Greg. with sin which reigns in our mortal bodies. GREG. NYSS. 1 We beseechalsoto be deliveredby the Lord from corruption, to be taken out of death. Or, accordingto some, Thy king dom come, that is,May Thy Holy Spiritcome upon us to purifyus. ubisup. PsEUDO-AuG. For then cometh the kingdom of God, when Luke17, we have obtainedHis grace. For He Himself says,The king dom of God iswithinyou. CYRIL. Or they who say thisseem to wish to have the Saviour of allagain illuminatingthe world. But He has commanded us to desirein prayerthat trulyawful time,in order that men might know that itbe hoves them to livenot in slothand backwardness,lestthat time bring upon them the fierypunishment, but rather honestlyand accordingto His will,thatthattime may weave crowns for them. Hence itfollows,accordingto Matthew, Thy willbe done,as in heaven,so in earth0-.CHRYS. As if He says,Enable us,O Lord, to followthe heavenly life,that Greg. whatever Thou wiliest,we may willalso. GREG. NYSS. For °rau sinceHe says thatthe lifeof man afterthe resurrectionwill Semi.*. be liketo thatofAngels,itfollows,thatour lifein thisworld should be so ordered with respectto that which we hope for hereafter,that livingin the fleshwe may not liveaccord ing to the flesh. But hereby the true Physician of souls destroysthe nature of the disease,that thosewho have been seizedwith sickness,whereby they have departed from the Divine will,may forthwithbe releasedfrom the diseaseby being joinedto the Divine will. For the health of the soul isthe due fulfilmentof the willof God. Aug.in AUG. It seems accordingto the EvangelistMatthew, that En1c]gnd'the Lord's prayer contains seven*petitions,but Luke has. comprehended it in five. Nor in truth does the one dis agree from the other,but the latterhas suggested by his brevityhow those seven are to be understood. For the name of God ishallowed in the spirit,but the kingdom of God is about to come at the resurrectionof the body. Luke then, shewing thatthe thirdpetitionisin a manner a repetitionof • Thisverseisomittedinthefollow- For.Mm. Gat.;and by Origen,Jerome, ingMSS. ofSt.Luke, B.L. 1,22, 130, Aug., Bede,Scholzin loc. 346.in theVersionsArm. Vulg. Corb.