She then sinks back into the coffin,
the priest lets the lid fall, and comes
not again until the next Cbristmass mid
n:pht tolls from the high church tower.
JLjiiie and School Louimille, Ay.
Daily Bread.
It is an interesting fact that the
Oreek word translated "daily" in onr
version of the Lord's Prayer epiotmirm
is a word fonnd nowhere in Greek lit
erature, saered or profane, except in
this divine petition, as given by Mat
thew and by Luke. Its literal meaning
has been discussed by Origen, Chry
sostom, Theophylactus in short, by
innumerable fathers and commentators,
ancient and modern. In various Latin
versions of the Gospels, in my library,
I find it rendered miper-tubntantialein,
unjKi-irntrm, rwfidiantim ; but though
Jerome seems, in using the first, to sup
pose spiritual bread implied, Rome has
not followed him, but uses in her mis
sals tirfidianuit.
Tbe King James translators showed
great wisdom and a thorough compre
hension of the original in their transla
tion by the use of the word "daily,"
for. though no idea of the succession
from day to day is to be found in the
Greek word, yet the whole idea of the
Greek is contained in the English sen
tence, "Give us this day our daily
bread. Probably no intelligent person
uses tbe words of the prayer without
the clear idea that he asks on this day
the proper, necessary and customary
supKrt of evsry day, which man needs
"daily." Tue fact that the Lord's
Prayer in the original Greek version,
contains an important word found no
where else, seems to me worthy a note.
Onr Social Mle.
