Re: USAGE: Thorn vs Eth

On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 21:18, John Cowan wrote:
> Ray Brown scripsit:
>
> > > Protestant Christians say "Hallowed be thy name" rather frequently;
> >
> > So also this side of The Pond do Catholic Christians    :)
>
> I excluded Catholics simply because I didn't know if that version
> of the prayer was still current among them.  Forty years ago the
> only difference was "trespassers/those who trespass against us"
> (Protestant) vs. "debts/debtors" (Catholic), plus "evil" (most Christians)
> vs. "evil one" (conservative Protestants).
I was educated as a Catholic (but am now merely Christian), and was
taught 'trespassers'. I'm pretty sure that's what the Baptist church I
often went to said, as was said at the Presbyterian church I went to two
Sundays ago, so it seems current in at least those in Australia. (I've
never heard it said with 'evil one'. (And thou/thee/thine etc. The only
difference I know of is 'For thine is the kindgom, the power and the
glory' I think in some church I've been too (Anglican perhaps?) and 'For
the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and for ever' in the
Catholic church. And the Catholics don't have it as part of it, but
rather say it afterwards only at Mass.)

Tristan.