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Preface
 

"He (Jesus) was praying in a certain place, and when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him, «Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.» And he said to them «When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Give us each day our daily bread; and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive every one who indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation." (Luke 11:1-4)
 

Our Father is written also in the Evangelium according to St. Mattew (6:9-13), too, where the prayer is in its usual longer form. The prayer sounded in Aramaic, in Jesus' mother tongue but it does not exist in the original. Early translations helped to restore the words. These are barely different from those that the disciplines heard from the mouth of Jesus:
 

'abun d°bashmaiya nitqaddash sh°mak, tete malkutak, nihwe sebyanak, 'aikanna d°bashmaiya, 'af bar'a. hab lan lahma d°sunqanan yaumana, washboq lan haubain 'aikanna d°af h°nan sh°baqin l°haiyabain, w°la ta'lan l°nisyona, 'ella faccan min bisha.

 Our Father, because of its shortness and lucidity, lended itself particurarly well to represent the languages in Europe. It was translated into almost every language of the world, and this is the only record of many extinct languages.
 
 

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