Preface.

...books proven superfluous. Therefore, our Master in prayer Original: Lehrmeister im Bethen. A reference to Jesus Christ, specifically regarding his instructions on the Lord's Prayer and the manner of praying. does not, with these words, reject the repetition of one and the same sigh Original: Seuffzers. In 17th-century devotional language, a "sigh" often referred to a brief, spontaneous, and heartfelt prayer or an inward turning of the soul toward God. arising from the fervor of the spirit, even if one has already prayed it once before. For he himself on the Mount of Olives Original: Oelberge. Referring to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed in agony before his arrest. also repeated the (a) very same words for the third time. Rather, he rejects the unnecessary saying and re-saying of the same words when I do so with the intention or belief that such manifold repetition would somehow help me, or as if God required that one tell Him every word ten times.

And even more: since it ultimately amounts to the same thing whether I superfluously repeat the previous words, or unnecessarily describe the matters already mentioned once with other equivalent words, nearly all translators Original: Dolmetscher. and interpreters of Holy Scripture have accepted this saying of Christ in this manner.

(a) Matthew 26:44.