Of Place for Prayer.

Chapter XXIV.—Of Place for Prayer.

But how “in every place,” since we are prohibited ⁸⁹²⁰ (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 apostles ⁸⁹²¹ (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

Footnotes

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Matt. 6:5, 6, which forbids praying in public.

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Paul and Silas (Acts xvi. 25).

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I have followed Muratori’s reading here.

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Mr. Dodgson renders “celebrated the Eucharist;” but that rendering appears very doubtful. See Acts xxvii. 35.