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On Prayer — Historical footnotes

Chapter 24

Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.

English translation and editorial credits: Sydney Thelwall.

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1885 (historical English edition; physical printing year uncertain) | Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)

I have followed Muratori’s reading here.

Editorial footnote · On Prayer, Chapter 24, editorial note cite_note-3 · Original source

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But how “in every place,” since we are prohibited (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 (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, who in the ship, in presence of all, “made thanksgiving to God.”