THE LORD’S PRAYER ACCORDING TO MAR JACOB OF SAROUG (†521)
THE LORD’S PRAYER ACCORDING TO MAR JACOB OF SAROUG (†521)

Summary/Abstract: This article is based on the original Syriac text that was edited by Paul Bedjan in his Homiliae Selectae, Mar –Jacobi Sarugensis, Vol. 1, (Paris 1905), pp 212-248. It is the 10th homily (mimro) published in this volume. Its title is: „al sluto d’alep Moran l-talmidaw(hy): Abun d- bašmayo: “On the Prayer, which Our Lord taught His disciples: Our Father who (art) in heaven”. The purpose of the present article is to expose some of the main ideas of Jacob of Saroug (†521) on the Lord's Prayer, which gradually became the „Prayer par excellence of the Christians‟ in their liturgical and spiritual life. As for commentaries on the Lord's Prayer by the Church Fathers and other early Christian Writers, and the history of its use in Liturgy, Baptism, Eucharist, Breviary etc. and in spirituality, this task, although very important and useful, cannot be undertaken here because of the limited scope of this article. I leave it to future researchers. In the exposition my comments are reduced to the minimum, so that the readers may get a taste of the spiritual thoughts that our author skillfully brought out from the various petitions of the Lord's Prayer.

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