Sacred Dissertations on the Lord’s Prayer
Overview
In Sacred Dissertations on the Lord’s Prayer, Witsius explores the significance and usage of the Lord’s prayer. Taking a holistic look, he defines traditional views of prayer and looks at its Old Testament history. His work examines the practical and spiritual advantages of prayer, as well as the motivations behind it and the physical aspects of prayer. A line-by-line exposition of the Lord’s Prayer provides a thorough analysis of Christ’s revolutionary prayer.
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- Preface and notes by the translator
- Line-by-line exposition of the Lord’s Prayer
- More than 400 pages of theological insight
Top Highlights
“When we pray to God that his name may be hallowed, we declare, I. Our true and sincere desire to seek his glory above all things.” (Page 195)
“we must not enjoin him to abstain from praying, or to address God by any other name than Father” (Page 169)
“As the word our is plural, it denotes a fellowship of love, by which every believer prays not only for himself, but for all the members of his family, for other believers who are his brethren, and for all men without exception, that they may enjoy the necessaries of life,—but still with the view that he may be enabled to assist the necessities of others by charitable donations.” (Page 277)
“We come now to the declaration that our Father is in the heavens, the plural phrase1 answering to the Hebrew שמים” (Page 170)
“(1.) That he may not permit us to meet with those temptations which we are unable to overcome,” (Page 358)
Herman Witsius . . . was a masterful Dutch Reformed theologian, learned, wise, mighty in the Scriptures, practical . . . on paper he was calm, judicious, systematic.
A writer not only eminent for his great talents and particularly solid judgments, rich imagination, and elegance of composition, but for a deep, powerful, and evangelistic spirituality, and savor of godliness.
- Title: Sacred Dissertations on the Lord’s Prayer
- Author: Herman Witsius
- Translator: William Pringle
- Publisher: Thomas Clark
- Publication Date: 1839
- Pages: 420
Herman Witsius (1636–1708) was born in Holland. He became a pastor in 1656 and a professor of divinity in 1675. Fluent in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, he authored several theological books.