After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
Tr. vii, 7: Otherwise, we say this not as wishing for God to be made holy byour prayers, but asking of Him for His name to be kept holy in us. For seeing He Himself has said, “Be ye holy, for I also am holy,” it is this that we ask and request that we who have been sanctified in Baptism, may persevere such as we have begun.
For this we daily make petition, since we need a daily sanctification, in order that we who sin day by day, may cleanse afresh our offences by a continual sanctification.
