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Glory be to the Father, one of the primitive doxologies of the Church, the doxologia minor. At first almost all the fathers had their own doxologies, which they expressed, as they had occasion, in their own language, ascribing "glory and honor" sometimes to the Father only, sometimes to the Son only, and sometimes to the Father through the Son. At the rise of the Arian heresy, "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost," became the standing form; to which the Western Church soon added, "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen." — Wheatly, Comm. Prayer, chapter 3, § 7; Palmer, Orig. Liturg. 1:219; Procter, On Common Prayer, pages 212, 215. (See DOXOLOGY).