Spurious Words
‘And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. [For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever Amen.]’ (Matthew 6:13)
The bracketed words above are generally recognized as spurious by most students of the Bible. They are not in the oldest Greek manuscripts, the Sinaitic and the Vatican. Some comments by Pastor Russell are: ‘The Kingdom or rule of the present time is not of God. Properly omitted by the Revised Version as being no part of the Scriptures’ (R5022:5 205022). ‘Added at a time when an earthly exaltation of the Church had led some to believe that the Papal glory was the glory of God’s Kingdom’ (R2005:3 202005).
There may be a subtle confirmation to this thought found in Revelation 12:10. ‘And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.’ The false church says that the ‘salvation, and the power, and the kingdom’ has come; almost the same phrase (except backwards) as in the spurious or added verse in Matthew 6:13.
– Mark Tribble