Burgeon's argument is very interesting:
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the doxology, I say, which formed part of the Church’s liturgy, though transcribed 10,000 times, could never by possibility have resulted in the unvarying doxology found in MSS. of St. Matt. vi. 13,—‘For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.’
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IOW, if I am reading him correctly, it is too much of a stretch to believe that the liturgy could have 'accidentally' given birth to Matt 6:13.