{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/003/0030768.htm","path":"chr/ecf/003/0030768.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/003/0030768.htm","text":"Chapter XXIV.\u2014Of Place for Prayer.\nBut how \u201cin every place,\u201d 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, \u201cbegan praying and singing to God\u201d) 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, \u201cmade thanksgiving to God.\u201d 8923\nMatt. 6:5, 6, which forbids praying in public.\n689:8921\nPaul and Silas (Acts xvi. 25).\n689:8922\nI have followed Muratori\u2019s reading here.\n689:8923\nMr. Dodgson renders \u201ccelebrated the Eucharist;\u201d but that rendering appears very doubtful. See Acts xxvii. 35.","title":"Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol III: Tertullian: Part III: Of Pl...","type":"page"}