Father of Heaven
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Proper noun[edit]
- (Christianity) An epithet of God the Father.
- 1737, Laurence Clarke, “Of the Litany”, in A Compleat Exposition of the Book of Common-Prayer, page 37:
- O God the Father of Heaven, have Mercy upon us, miſerable Sinners. [¶] The addreſſing God the Father, by the Name of Father of Heaven, and the praying to him ſeparately, is juſtified by theſe Words of St. Paul, For this Cauſe I bow my Knees unto the Father of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named, Epheſ. iii. 13, 14.