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On Prayer · III. On Prayer · Chapter XXIV

Of Place for Prayer

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But how "in every place," since we are prohibited8920 (from praying) in public? In every place, he means, which opportunity or even necessity, may have rendered suitable: for that which was done by the apostles8921 (who, in gaol, in the audience of the prisoners, "began praying and singing to God") is not considered to have been done contrary to the precept; nor yet that which was done by Paul,8922 who in the ship, in presence of all, "made thanksgiving to God."8923

Notes

  1. 8920

    , , which forbids praying in public.

  2. 8921

    Paul and Silas ().

  3. 8922

    I have followed Muratori's reading here.

  4. 8923

    Mr. Dodgson renders "celebrated the Eucharist;" but that rendering appears very doubtful. See .

Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.