Article July 24, 1937 Issue

Your report on February 1 of a bishop's comments on...

John A. C. Fraser, Committee on Publication for the Province of Alberta, Canada,—Lethbridge

Herald

Your report on February 1 of a bishop's comments on the right interpretation of the phrase in the Lord's Prayer, "Lead us not into temptation," naturally calls attention to the Scriptural teaching on this subject.

The bishop's question, "Would God lead us into temptation?" is pertinent and it is plainly answered in the negative by the Apostle James. Declaring the blessedness of the man who overcomes temptation, James continues, "Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." He then explains that unideal human experience, which all must overcome through divine help.

The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, with a chapter entitled "Prayer," which concludes with a statement of the Lord's Prayer and its spiritual interpretation. In keeping with the above Scriptural teaching, the line, "And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil," is followed by this interpretation (p. 17): "And God leadeth us not into temptation, but delivereth us from sin, disease, and death."

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