Historyczno-biblijne podłoże prośby „i nie wódź nas na pokuszenie”w modlitwie “Ojcze nasz”
The Historical and Biblical Background of the Request “and lead us not into temptation”in “Our Father”

Summary/Abstract: The author presents the meaning of the “difficult request” in Our Father in a historical context analyzing two versions of the prayer and highlighting their specific features and then proceeding to the analysis of its original Greek text and its Latin translation. It proves that both versions in the first sense do not mean “temptation”, but “trial, affliction” similar to what Israel experienced on its way through the desert to the Promised Land. This Old Testament historical context finds its complement in the scene of the Temptation of Jesus in the desert, where He symbolically experiences the same temptations and rejects them. Therefore, in the “difficult request” in Our Father the meaning of “temptation” is also “heard” but it should be understood as an inclination “drawn” by original sin more than as a situation that would be introduced by God. For this reason modern translations of the Bible render the causal meaning of this action with a volitional meaning. In order to understand this “difficult request” properly it is necessary not only to have a thorough knowledge of the whole of Sacred Scripture but to live its content in life as well.

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