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Matthew 6
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matthew.6.mt6Doxology
ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία ... ἀμήν
TEXTBOUNDARYTRANSLATIONhigh confidence
Does Matthew’s prayer include the familiar doxology?
The oldest surviving witnesses end with rescue from evil. Several later forms add a liturgical conclusion about kingdom, power, and glory; it is ancient in Christian worship but probably not part of Matthew’s earliest recoverable text.
Why this default
The prayer ending at ‘evil/the evil one’ is default because the earliest and most diverse evidence lacks a doxology. The added endings are ancient worship forms, but their variation and liturgical suitability point to expansion after Matthew.
Evidence
ExternalNo doxology: א, B, D, Z, 0170, family 1, important Old Latin, Vulgate and Coptic witnesses; full and variant doxologies: L, W, Θ, 0233, family 13, Byzantine witnesses and ancient church-order tradition.
InternalA prayer used communally invites a closing doxology. Multiple endings are easier to explain as liturgical additions than as several independent deletions of a fixed original close.
Project default⟦The earliest recoverable prayer ends with rescue from evil.⟧
Project default · earliest witnesses
WitnessesEnds ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ · א, B, D, Z, 0170, family 1, early versionsAlternativeFor yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Familiar later doxology
WitnessesKingdom, power, and glory doxology · L, W, Θ, 0233, family 13, Byzantine traditionAlternativeFor yours is the power forever. Amen.
Ancient shorter form
WitnessesVariant shorter doxology · selected ancient witnesses and church-order traditionAlternative[For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.]
Later ending displayed
WitnessesDisplay option · later conclusion bracketedRecord integrity
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