Works Tertullian (160-220) De oratione On Prayer

Chapter XXIV.--Of Place for Prayer.

But how "in every place," since we are prohibited 1 (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 2 (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, 3 who in the ship, in presence of all, "made thanksgiving to God." 4

  1. Matt. vi. 5, 6, which forbids praying in public. ↩

  2. Paul and Silas (Acts xvi. 25). ↩

  3. I have followed Muratori's reading here. ↩

  4. Mr. Dodgson renders "celebrated the Eucharist;" but that rendering appears very doubtful. See Acts xxvii. 35. ↩

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Einleitung: Kathechteische Schriften (Über die Schauspiele, Über die Idolatrie, über den weiblichen Putz, An die Märtyrer, Zeugnis der Seele, über die Busse, über das Gebet, über die Taufe, gegen die Juden, Aufforderung zur Keuschheit)

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