Matthew 6:10
Douay-Rheims
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
These words, As in heaven so in earth, must be taken as common to all three preceding petitions. Observe also how carefully it is worded; He said not, Father, hallow Thy name in us, Let Thy kingdom come on us, Do Thy will in us. Nor again; Let us hallow Thy name, Let us enter into Thy kingdom, Let us do Thy will; that it should not seem to be either God’s doing only, or man’s doing only. But He used a middle form of speech, and the impersonal verb; for as man can do nothing good without God’s aid, so neither does God work good in man unless man wills it.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 6:10
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.