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April 1962

Should We Revise the Lord's Prayer?

there is a world of difference between "Lead us not into temptation" and "Let us not fall when tempted

AS a newspaperman, some years ago I interviewed a retired three-star general who, as a layman, was proposing to high authorities in his church that a certain phrase in the Lord's Prayer be changed. Instead of saying "Lead us not into temptation," he argued, we ought to say "Let us not fall when tempted."

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