361. THAT WE SHOULD PRAY DAILY FOR THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM: AND THUS WHAT IS MEANT BY "DAILY" By "daily" in the Lord's prayer is meant every moment, which can be confirmed by experience, and thus be understood; namely, that those to whom eternal happiness is shown suppose that they have been at once carried away into heaven; so those who have come out of temptations suppose that thus they have become the eternal heirs of the Kingdom; those who have labored in the vineyard also suppose that thus they ought to have eternal salvation, which they hence attribute to themselves. The contrary, however, is shown to them, namely, that they are again cast into dangers, into temptations, into perils and the like, on account of damnation. Hence it can be concluded, that "daily" signifies every moment in things successive, but in their simultaneous things, however, this is changed into a continuous glorification of God Messiah, so that the moments are continuous without differentiation; hence their perception and felicities and their [belief] that they continually receive this from God Messiah. 1747, Dec. 17.* * The entry in the Index (s.v. Felicitas) is: "What `daily' signifies in the Lord's Prayer. That those who trust in themselves are admitted into heaven, and afterwards let down into damnation; this takes place in the beginning for a longer period of time, and afterwards they are turned into shorter periods; hence their happiness together with perception."