The Lord's Prayer Lost Word

The Lord's Prayer may contain one of history's most famous mistranslations. In the line "Give us today our daily bread," the Greek word epiousion was rendered as "daily," even though scholars argue that no such word exists elsewhere in Greek. Some believe the closest meaning is "supersubstantial" or "necessary for existence," suggesting the verse may have originally carried a more spiritual or mystical sense than a simple request for food. Debate over this single word continues to this day, with no universally agreed-upon translation.

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