Day 20 "What to make of dreams?"
Joseph is known as a "dreamer" and also a dream interpreter. As he is accused wrongly by Potiphar's Wife, he will interpret dreams back into Pharoah's favor. God uses dreams to move beyond the ordinary to the extraordinary. The "wide awake" dreams appear the most valuable. Yet...we cannot totally discount the message of our asleep dreams. In my view, dreams reveal our greatest hopes or fears. What do you make of dreams? (for more info read day 20 in 2006)
posted by Philip McVay @ 2:58 PM
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Question for Phillip, related to Matthew 6 - sorry to be late, but I was behind and am just catching up...
In Matthew 6, the Lord's Prayer ends with "deliver us from evil." In most protestant churches, we add the "For thine is the kingdom, etc." I recently attended a Catholic funeral mass during which the Lord's Prayer was said many times, but always ending as in Matthew. Why do we add the codicil? Who originally decided to do that? When? Thanks.
Great question...(READ A FEW DIFFERENT VERSIONS AND YOU WILL SEE WHY)
The answer I see is that the addition came in early Church history. It appears that the doxology (codicil)of the Lord's Prayer was added in the early church tradition... and in some biblical translations. (The early Church actually preceded our canon of the Scriptures.) Interestingly, the doxology phrase does appear in the King James Version but not modern versions such as the NIV. The explanation is modern versions believe this is what Jesus actually prayed.
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