Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-10-23 | Page 11 | Quaint Charge Involves Prayer

QUAINT CHARGE INV INVOLVES lVE P PRAYER YER Translation of New Testament Testa Testa- ment Reveals Short Version Version Version Ver Ver- sion of Lords Lord's Prayer Praye CHICAGO CI Oct Oci The 23 recent publication of Dr Di Edgar J J. Goodspeed Goodspeed's Goodspeeds Goodspeeds Goodspeed's Good- Good speeds speed's American translation of ot the New Testament reveals tho the ex explanation ex- ex of oC the tho curious charge widely made mado against the translator or ot having shortened the tho Lords Lord's Prayer A Chicago s nc writer took the form of the prayer found in Luke chapter 11 11 and declared I that to be Dr Goodspeeds Goodspeed's version This statement was then taken up by v various rl us papers pc Tho fact Is 18 tho Lords Lord's er in in general use is found no not In Luke chapter 11 but in M Matthew chapter 6 G. The shorter Lukan form Is never used in hi churches and usually passes un un- un- un noticed Tho The Goodspeed form of t tim tho Lords Lord's Prayer as given in Matthev Matthew Mat Mat- thew chapter 6 G. G shows no abbreviation abbreviation abbreviation of ot the prayer as It appears in the tho Latin LaUn vulgate the famous Pater Noster the first English translation from the tho original Greek by William T Tyndale 1523 the English revision of 1881 the American American Amer Asner- ican lean revision of oC 1901 or any modern modern modem mod mod- em ern translation Much misapprehension as to the English form of oC tho the Lords Lord's Prayer exists said Professor Goodspeed who is professor of ot Patristic Greek Greel and early literature at atthe atthe the tho University of Chicago Many any people think there thero has always been entire agreement among English translators o on the wording of ot the Lords Lord's Prayer As a matter of ot fact In the whole series of English translations s from William 1525 until today no two translations lions have entirely agreed in the I wording of the Lords Lord's Prayer and the tho prayer book differs from all of ot them It is most unfortunate that my translation of ot the prayer as given in Luke Luko should have havo been seized upon for comparison with the tho form torm made mado familiar to us liS by Ma Matthew