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Matteo 6:7

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7 Ora, quando farete orazione, non usate soverchie dicerie, come i pagani; perciocchè pensano di essere esauditi per la moltitudine delle lor parole.

Matteo 6:7 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 6:7

But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions
Saying the same things over and over again,

as the Heathens do,
as the worshippers of Baal, from morning till noon, ( 1 Kings 18:26 ) . This our Lord observes, to dissuade from such practices, because the Gentiles, who were odious to the Jews, used them, and the Jews were guilty of the same; had they not, there would not have been any need of such advice:

for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking;
as did the Jews, who, under pretence of "long prayers", devoured widows' houses; and with whom it is an axiom, that "everyone (hnen hlyptb) (hbrmh) , that multiplies prayer is heard" F8; and whoever prolongs his prayer, his prayer does not return empty; and he that is long in prayer, his days are prolonged F9: and, according to their canons, every day a man ought to pray eighteen prayers. Moreover, their prayer books abound in tautologies, and in expressing the same things in different words, and by a multiplicity of them.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 T. Hieros. Taaniot, fol. 67. 3.
F9 Zohar in Exod. fol. 104. 4.
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Matteo 6:7 In-Context

5 E quando tu farai orazione, non esser come gl’ipocriti; perciocchè essi amano di fare orazione, stando ritti in piè, nelle sinagoghe, e ne’ canti delle piazze, per esser veduti dagli uomini; io vi dico in verità, che ricevono il loro premio.
6 Ma tu, quando farai orazione, entra nella tua cameretta, e serra il tuo uscio, e fa’ orazione al Padre tuo, che è in segreto; e il Padre tuo, che riguarda in segreto, ti renderà la tua retribuzione in palese.
7 Ora, quando farete orazione, non usate soverchie dicerie, come i pagani; perciocchè pensano di essere esauditi per la moltitudine delle lor parole.
8 Non li rassomigliate adunque; perciocchè il Padre vostro sa le cose di che voi avete bisogno, innanzi che gliele chiediate.
9 Voi adunque orate in questa maniera: PADRE NOSTRO che sei ne’ cieli, sia santificato il tuo nome.
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