[little snip]
> The third possibility, often found in the margin, is 'our bread for
> the morrow', derived according to BAGD from hH EPIOUSA, sc. hHMERA.
>
> Given that so many people pray this prayer KAQ' hHMERAN it is amazing
> that the question so rarely gets asked about this rather mystifying
> petition.
Dear Mark:
I was hoping someone would raise this issue. I always treated TON ARTON TON
EPIOUSION as "our bread for tomorrow", understanding EPIAURION for EPIOUSION: compare EPI THN AURION, Luke 10:35; Acts 4:5. Is there any textual evidence
for this as a variant reading? It certainly makes sense to pray _today_
SHMERON for _tomorrow's_ bread TON ARTON TON *EPIAURION*.
Could it be that a Sigma has taken the place of a Rho inadvertently, to give
the HAPAX LEGOMENON "EPIOUSION"?
As mystified as you,
-- Revd Ben Crick, BA Bristol, 1963 (hons in Theology) <ben.crick@argonet.co.uk> 232 Canterbury Road, Birchington, Kent, CT7 9TD (UK)