After this manner therefore pray: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
The prayer to hallow God’s name corresponds with what Jesus has previously taught: “Let your light so shine before others that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven,” just as the seraphim too, giving glory, sang “Holy, holy, holy.” So “hallowed” means “glorified.” In effect he is saying, “Enable us to live so purely that through us all may glorify you.” It points us again to mature selfcontrol, that we may present to all a life so irreprehensible that every one of those who observe may offer to the Lord the praise due to him for this. The Gospel of Matthew, Homily
