Werke Tertullian (160-220) De oratione

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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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De Oratione

XXIV.

[1] De temporibus orationis nihil omnino praescriptum est nisi plane omni in tempore et loco orare. Sed quomodo omni loco, cum prohibeamur in publico? Omni, inquit, loco, quem opportunitas aut etiam necessitas importarit. Neque enim contra praeceptum reputatur ab apostolis factum, qui in carcere audientibus custodiis orabant et canebant Deo, apud Paulum, qui in naui coram omnibus eucharistiam fecit.

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