According to this article, Pope Francis wants to change the wording of the Lord's Prayer from "lead us not into temptation" to "do not let us fall into temptation," which is a French translation. The theological shift (to us) is good, but I'm unsure of changing such longstanding wording.
Michie, you are falling down on the job.I haven't read anything from any Catholic sources yet. I say leave it as it is. I have not read the article yet as I am doing errands. Maybe he wanted it changed in a liturgical setting?
What does the Greek say?According to this article, Pope Francis wants to change the wording of the Lord's Prayer from "lead us not into temptation" to "do not let us fall into temptation," which is a French translation. The theological shift (to us) is good, but I'm unsure of changing such longstanding wording.
Michie, you are falling down on the job.This is first that I've seen of it. Maybe it's another lost in translation article on what the Pope said.
I thought is was the Daily Fail.Ah - that most revered of our daily journals - often referred to as the Daily Wail.
And lead us not, &c. Lead, not impel, as Calvin would interpret. For “God cannot be tempted of evil, neither tempteth he any man,” saith S. James (1:13). God only permits us to be led into temptation. So the Fathers and all Catholics. In a manner, God is said to do what He permits, since nothing can be done without His suffering it to be. The meaning then is—1. Permit us not to be led into temptation in such a manner, at least, that we are overcome by it, as fishes and birds are taken in a net. “Let us not,” as S. Augustine says, “be bereft of Thy help, so that we should be deceived and consent to any temptation.”
2. Suffer not temptation to befall us. And yet in the Lives of the Fathers, we read, that certain saints wished for temptations as a means of increasing virtue, through fortitude of mind and trust in God. Whence S. James says, “My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.” For by temptation we are proved and exercised, we fight and are perfected. Christ therefore puts us in mind of our infirmity, and that because of it, we ought not to expose ourselves to temptations; but should, as far as may be, ward them off, and pray against them. And we can only overcome temptation by the help of God’s grace. Wherefore in temptation we must continually and ardently pray for God’s help. As S. Peter Chrysologus says, (Serm. 44), “He goes into temptation, who goes not to prayer.” And S. Gregory Nyssen says (Orat. 1 de Orat. Domin.), “If prayer precede business, sin findeth no way of access to the mind.”
Adam Clarke's Commentary says almost the exact same interpretation.The following is from The Great Commentary Of Cornelius À Lapide:
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