Did Jesus ever tell his disciples to pray, ‘May your Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us’? (Reflections on Gregory of Nyssa #7)
In the fourth of our reflections on Gregory of Nyssa’s third sermon on the Lord’s Prayer, we see that Gregory — in the late fourth century A.D. — had a most curious reading of Luke 11:2, “May your Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse us.” What are we to make of this, and could