And then, my mind flitting to my father's deathbed, I began to murmur, scarce above my breath, the same vain repetition of words, 'Hurry, hurry, hurry.'

Some have taken issue with the form of the prayer, citing Jesus' admonition against "vain repetitions" in Matthew 6:7-9.

The term translated as "vain repetitions" is battalogein.

Asking God to be God is a "vain repetition."

It's the spirit of demonism, as is evident by the vain repetition of Hail Marys in the Rosary Prayer.

They believe that Jesus gave it as an inspired example for correct prayer and not as a set text to be repeated using "vain repetitions".

That having had one good leg he should have another-- this would be to use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do.

The Bible must be referring to wallpapers, I think, when it says, "Use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do."

Rituals have no efficacy; prayers are vain repetitions; and incantations have no saving power.

"Out of respect," said Chebeya, "we try to avoid vain repetition of the names of the Original Women."