{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-183","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":14,"chapter_to":14,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":15,"verse_to":15},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Abraham of Nathpar</b>: It is in spirit and mind that one should pray and sing to God. Paul does not say anything about the tongue. The reason is that this spiritual prayer is not offered up or prayed by the tongue, for it is deeper than the lips and the tongue, more interiorized than any composite sounds, lying beyond psalmody and wisdom.<br/><i>— ON PRAYER 2</i></p><p><b>Cassiodorus</b>: The prayer of those who sing is acceptable to God only if a pure heart carries the same message which the words of the hymn unfold.<br/><i>— EXPLANATION OF THE Psalms 2</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nazianzus</b>: Worshiping and praying in the Spirit seem to me to be simply the Spirit presenting prayer and worship to himself.<br/><i>— THEOLOGICAL ORATION 31.12</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: For our mind would not even be able to pray unless the Spirit prayed for it as if obeying it, so that we cannot even sing and hymn the Father in Christ with proper rhythm, melody, measure and harmony unless the Spirit who searches everything, even the depths of God, first praises and hymns him whose depths he has searched out and has understood as far as he is able.<br/><i>— ON PRAYER 4</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: We are the true adorers and the true priests, who, praying in spirit, sacrifice, in spirit, prayer,-a victim proper and acceptable to God, which assuredly He has required, which He has looked forward to for Himself! This victim, devoted from the whole heart, fed on faith, tended by truth, entire in innocence, pure in chastity, garlanded with love, we ought to escort with the pomp of good works, amid psalms and hymns, unto God's altar, to obtain for us all things from God.<br/><i>— On Prayer</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"cc5e01c930561737304145cecb8b30e00b9040f825af70310c44c691e21282af","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":183,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"9a2222ad221a47e0347b664a8a28f3730112256d26043ece6c4d6f79bdf9e971","translator":null,"work":null}