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The Lord’s Prayer starts by the address to the Father. 1 I am examining Calvin’s interpretation in the Institutes and compare it with that of Augustine in De Sermone Domini in Monte….

Pages 379 to 384 in Benoît’s edition (based on the 1560’s edition, which is the last one) are on “Nostre Père qui es ès cieux.” Four paragraphs (numbers 36–39) are on the first part of the clause (“Nostre Père”), and one (number 40) is on the second part (“qui es ès cieux”.) Augustine’s commentary, on the other hand, is much shorter. He, too, divides the address to the Father into two parts, but the first one (Book II, Chapter IV: 15–16) is barely longer than the second (Book II, Chapter V: 17–18.) This fact may already suggest the idea that Calvin attaches more importance to the term Father than to “Heavens,” whereas Augustine devotes the same amount of exegesis to each part.2