SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #180
"And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. But thou when thou shalt pray, enter into thy chamber, and having shut the door, pray to thy Father in secret, and thy father who seeth in secret will repay thee." (Matt. 6:5-6)
THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER: God does not require our prayers to know what we want, for He is Omniscient, and knows our needs better than we do ourselves. But they are necessary for us, to turn our hearts from the things of this world, and draw us heavenward by a humbles sense of our nothingness and by a longing for the gifts of God.
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER: God does not require our prayers to know what we want, for He is Omniscient, and knows our needs better than we do ourselves. But they are necessary for us, to turn our hearts from the things of this world, and draw us heavenward by a humbles sense of our nothingness and by a longing for the gifts of God.
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
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