§3Nomen dei patris nemini proditum fuerat.
The name of God the Father had been revealed to no one.
etiam qui de ipso interrogauerat, Moyses, aliud quidem nomen audierat.
Even he who had inquired about Him, Moses, had indeed heard another name.
nobis reuelatum est in filio.
To us it has been revealed in the Son.
iam quis enim filius? nouum patris nomen est.
For now, who is the Son? "Father" is a new name.
ego ueni, inquit, in nomine patris, et rursus: pater, glorifica nomen tuum, et apertius: nomen tuum manifestaui hominibus. id ergo ut sanctificetur postulamus.
He says, "I have come in the Father's name," and again, "Father, glorify Your name," and more openly, "I have manifested Your name to men." We ask, therefore, that this may be hallowed.
non quod deceat homines bene deo optare, quasi sit et alius de quo ei possit optari aut laboret, nisi optemus.
Not that it is fitting for men to wish well to God, as if there were someone else from whom something could be wished for Him, or as if He would suffer unless we wish it.
plane benedici deum omni loco ac tempore condecet ob debitam semper memoriam beneficiorum eius ab omni homine.
Clearly, it is highly fitting that God be blessed in every place and time, because of the ever-due memory of His benefits by every man.
sed et hoc benedictionis uice fungitur.
But this also serves in the place of a blessing.
ceterum quando non sanctum et sanctificatum est per semetipsum nomen dei, cum ceteros sanctificet ex semetipso? cui illa angelorum circumstantia non cessat dicere: sanctus, sanctus, sanctus. proinde igitur et nos angelorum, si meruerimus, candidati, iam hinc caelestem illam in deum uocem et officium futurae claritatis ediscimus.
Moreover, when is the name of God not holy and hallowed in itself, since He sanctifies all others from Himself? To whom that surrounding throng of angels does not cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy." Therefore we too, as candidates for the angelic state, if we prove worthy, already from this moment learn that heavenly voice toward God and the office of future glory.
hoc quantum ad gloriam dei.
This much as regards the glory of God.
alioquin quantum ad nostram petitionem, cum dicimus: BANCTIFICETUR \'NOMEN TUUM, id petimus, ut sanctificetur in nobis, qui in illo sumus, simul et in ceteris, quos adhuc gratia dei expectat, ut et huic praecepto pareamus orando pro omnibus, etiam pro inimicis nostris.
Otherwise, as regards our petition, when we say, "HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME," we ask this: that it may be hallowed in us, who are in Him, and at the same time in others, whom the grace of God still awaits, so that we may also obey this precept by praying for all, even for our enemies.
ideoque suspensa enuntiatione non dicentes, sanctificetur in nobis, in omnibus dicimus. §4Secundum hanc formam subiungimus: FIAT UOLUNTAS TUA IN CAEIIIS ET IN TERRA, non quod aliquis obsistat, quo minus uoluntas dei fiat, et ei successum uoluntatis suae oremus, sed in omnibus petimus fieri uoluntatem eius.
And therefore, with a suspended utterance, not saying "be hallowed in us," we say "in all." According to this form we subjoin: YOUR WILL BE DONE IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, not that anyone may obstruct God's will from being done, so that we should pray for the success of His will, but we ask that His will be done in all things.
ex interpretatione enim figurata carnis et spiritus nos sumus caelum et terra.
For by a figurative interpretation of flesh and spirit, we ourselves are heaven and earth.
quamquam etsi simpliciter intellegendum est, idem tamen est sensus petitionis, ut in nobis fiat uoluntas dei in terris, ut possit scilicet fieri et in caelis.
Although, even if it is to be understood literally, the sense of the petition is still the same: that the will of God may be done in us on earth, so that it may also be able to be done in heaven.
quid autem deus uult quam incedere nos secundum suam disciplinam? petimus ergo substantiam et facultatem uoluntatis suae subministret nobis, ut salui simus et in caelis et in terris, quia summa est uoluntatis eius salus eorum quos adoptauit.
But what does God will, other than that we should walk according to His discipline? Therefore we ask that He supply us with the substance and capability of His will, so that we may be saved both in heaven and on earth, because the sum of His will is the salvation of those whom He has adopted.
est et illa dei uoluntas, quam dominus administrauit praedicando operando sustinendo.
There is also that will of God which the Lord administered by preaching, by working, and by enduring.
si enim ipse pronuntiauit non suam, sed patris facere se uoluntatem, sine dubio, quae faciebat, ea erat uoluntas patris, ad quae nunc nos uelut ad exemplaria prouocamur, ut et praedicemus et operemur et sustineamus ad mortem usque.
For if He Himself declared that He did not His own will, but the Father's, without doubt the things which He did were the will of the Father, to which we are now challenged as to exemplars, that we also may preach, work, and endure even unto death.
quae ut implere possimus, opus est dei uoluntate.
And that we may be able to fulfill these things, there is need of the will of God.
item dicentes, fiat uoluntas tua, uel eo nobis bene optamus, quod nihil mali sit in dei uoluntate, etiam si quid pro meritis cuiusque secus inrogatur.
Likewise, when we say, "Your will be done," we wish well to ourselves by this very fact: that there is no evil in God's will, even if something contrary is inflicted on anyone according to his merits.
iam hoc dicto ad sufferentiam nosmetipsos praemonemus.
Indeed, by this saying we forewarn ourselves to endurance.
dominus quoque cum sub instantiam passionis infirmitatem carnis demonstrare iam in sua carne uoluisset, pater, inquit, transfer poculum istud, et recordatus, nisi quod mea non, sed tua fiat uoluntas. ipse erat uoluntas et potestas patris et tamen ad demonstrationem sufferentiae debitae uoluntati se patris tradidit.
The Lord also, when at the approach of His passion He wished to show the weakness of the flesh already in His own flesh, said, "Father, remove this cup," and then remembering, "nevertheless, let not My will, but Yours be done." He Himself was the will and power of the Father, and yet, to demonstrate the endurance due to the Father's will, He surrendered Himself.