Abstract
Prayer the article of M. D. GOULDER 1) plays a role of importance. It is fascinating to become acquainted with an interpretation, which has tried to take into account the long history that the text of the Lord's Prayer has undergone before it was inserted in the gospels of Matt. and Luke. The failure of the eschatological exegesis of the Lord's Prayer, as proposed by E. LOHMEYER 2), J.JEREMIAS 3), and R. E. BROWN 4), became evident not merely from the fact that these interpreters had to make use of extremely intricate reasoning and research to uphold this explanation. Several authors 5) had remained unconvinced by their arguments and rejected an eschatological interpretation for one or the other verse, or for several invocations 6). The problem was dealt with in an even more fundamental way by E.GRASSER7) who showed that the text of the Lord's Prayer, as we find it presently in the gospels, appears to have been developed at a time in which the delay of the Parousia was no longer a problem. If this is accepted the obstacles are remov-
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