ST. CYPRIAN

ON

THE LORD’S PRAYER

AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION, WITH
INTRODUCTION

BY

T. HERBERT BINDLEY, M.A., D.D.

PRINCIPAL OF CODRINGTON COLLEGE, BARBADOS ; EXAMINING CHAPLAIN
TO THE LORD BISHOP.

PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE TRACT COMMITTEE

LONDON :
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C. ; 43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.G.
BRIGHTON : 129, NORTH STREET.
NEW YORK : EDWIN S. GORHAM.
1914

THE little work of St. Cyprian’s which is here presented in an English translation is in a very true and real sense an ” EARLY CHURCH CLASSIC,” for it was early accorded by the Church the position of the recognized standard treatise on the LORD’S PRAYER. So high was the esteem in which it was held that St. Hilary of Poitiers, writing just one hundred years later (A. D. 354), considered himself relieved from the task of commenting on the LORD’S PRAYER when, in the course of his Exposition on St. Matthew, he came to Chapter vi. 9-13, preferring rather to send his readers to St. Cyprian’s well-known book

Bindley. St. Cyprian on the Lord’s prayer; an English translation, with introduction (1914)