The Lord's Prayer Doesn't Say 'Daily Bread' in this 444 Year-Old Bible

A 444-year-old Bible still in print today doesn't say "daily bread" in the Lord's Prayer. Here's the sixteen-hundred-year-old Greek mystery behind why, and why it's not a mistake. Millions of Christians recite the Lord's Prayer from memory, "give us this day our daily bread," without ever knowing that one English Bible, the 1582 Douay-Rheims, has never said that. In this investigation, I open my own 444-year-old New Testament alongside a 341 year-old 1685 King James Bible to show you the real difference at Matthew 6:11, then trace the Greek word behind it, epiousios, a word that appears nowhere else in the entire New Testament, all the way from Origen and Jerome through Wycliffe, Tyndale, and the modern Bible on your own shelf. This isn't a story about the Bible changing. It's a story about what happens when translators hit a word with no easy answer, and refuse to fake one. IN THIS INVESTIGATION: Why the Douay-Rheims translates Matthew 6:11 as "supersubstantial bread" instead of "daily bread" The Greek word "epiousios" and why even the early church couldn't agree on what it meant Origen's third-century verdict that the word may have been invented by the Gospel writers themselves How Jerome's translation choice in the Latin Vulgate split English Bible history in two What the Wycliffe Bible (1395), Tyndale (1526), and the Geneva Bible got right, and where they parted ways What modern translations like the NIV, Darby, and NET Bible still do differently with this same word CHAPTERS: 0:00 The Lord's Prayer says something different in this 444-year-old Bible 0:38 Why I show you the actual pages 1:59 The Lord's Prayer, from memory 2:44 The Greek word hiding inside this verse 3:30 Translation vs. corruption 5:43 Opening the 1582 to Matthew 6:11 7:45 What is "epiousios"? 9:52 What Origen said 11:01 Cyprian, Chrysostom, and the early church's disagreement 12:15 Jerome's decision in the Vulgate 14:04 Wycliffe's 1395 translation 14:35 The Reformation and William Tyndale 16:30 Two translation traditions, side by side 17:03 What modern Bibles still do with this word 17:58 Why this isn't a mistake 18:54 What I want you to do next 20:03 Did you catch it? 20:41 The Scriptorium and The Portal 21:16 Closing thought GO DEEPER: For the fuller manuscript history behind moments like this one, join the Scriptorium inside The Portal at GCLMedia.org. BOOKS BY DR. G.C. LEWIS: Elucidations (with study companions, available in the Scriptorium) God's Garden The Name Above All Names Canon & Tongue Available at GCLMedia.org and on Amazon https://amzn.to/35K5ogI