QUOTIDIAN. Give us this Day our daily Bread, or our quotidian Bread, or every Day’s Bread. The Latin Text of St.1 Luk. xi. 3.Luke reads it; Panem nostrum quotidianum. But that of St. Matthew2 has, Panem nostrum supersubstantialem da nobis hodie. The Greek Word Epiousios, made use of by the Evangelists, may signify either supersubstantialis, or sufficiens, or futurus, crastinus. Hieron. in Matth. vi.St. Jerom observes, that the Hebrew Gospel us’d by the Nazareans, had Machus, which signifies the next Day, or the future. Give us our Bread, or Food necessary to sustain us to Morrow, or for the Time to come. We have Recourse to
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