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    The Prayers of St. Paul
    The Prayers of St. Paul
    The Prayers of St. Paul
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    The Prayers of St. Paul

    By W. H. Griffith (William Henry Griffith) Thomas

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Prayers of St. Paul - W. H. Griffith (William Henry Griffith) Thomas

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      Title: The Prayers of St. Paul

      Author: W. H. Griffith Thomas

      Release Date: November 1, 2009 [EBook #30389]

      Language: English

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      THE SHORT COURSE SERIES

      THE PRAYERS OF ST. PAUL

      GENERAL PREFACE

      The title of the present series is a sufficient indication of its purpose. Few preachers, or congregations, will face the long courses of expository lectures which characterised the preaching of the past, but there is a growing conviction on the part of some that an occasional short course, of six or eight connected studies on one definite theme, is a necessity of their mental and ministerial life. It is at this point the projected series would strike in. It would suggest to those who are mapping out a scheme of work for the future a variety of subjects which might possibly be utilised in this way.

      The appeal, however, will not be restricted to ministers or preachers. The various volumes will meet the needs of laymen and Sabbath-school teachers who are interested in a scholarly but also practical exposition of Bible history and doctrine. In the hands of office-bearers and mission-workers the Short Course Series may easily become one of the most convenient and valuable of Bible helps.

      It need scarcely be added that while an effort has been made to secure, as far as possible, a general uniformity in the scope and character of the series, the final responsibility for the special interpretations and opinions introduced into the separate volumes, rests entirely with the individual contributors.

      A detailed list of the authors and their subjects will be found at the close of each volume.

      The Short Course Series

      EDITED BY

      Rev. JOHN ADAMS, B.D.

      THE

      PRAYERS OF ST. PAUL

      BY THE

      Rev. W. H. GRIFFITH THOMAS, D.D.

      PROFESSOR OF OLD TESTAMENT LITERATURE AND EXEGESIS

      WYCLIFFE COLLEGE, TORONTO

      NEW YORK

      CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS

      1914

      TO

      W. G. J.

      CONTENTS

      One of the most valuable elements in the Epistles of St. Paul is their revelation of the writer’s spiritual life. While they are necessarily doctrinal and theological, dealing with the fundamental realities of the Christian religion, they are also intensely personal, and express very much of the Apostle’s own experience. They depict in a marked degree the sources and characteristics of the spiritual life. This is especially seen when the various prayers, thanksgivings, doxologies, and personal testimonies are considered.

      I.

      GRACE AND HOLINESS.

      I.

      GRACE AND HOLINESS.

      Now God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you. And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you: To the end He may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.—1 Thess. iii. 11-13.

      There are few more precious subjects for meditation and imitation than the prayers and intercessions of the great Apostle. He was a man of action because he was first and foremost a man of prayer. To him both aspects of the well-known motto were true: To pray is to labour, and To labour is to pray.

      There is no argument for or justification of prayer; nor even an explanation. It is assumed to be the natural and inevitable expression of spiritual life. Most of the Apostle’s prayers of which we have a record are concerned with other people rather than with himself, and they thus reveal to us indirectly but very really what St. Paul felt to be the predominant needs of the spiritual life.

      In this series of studies we propose to look at some of these prayers, and to consider their direct bearing upon our own lives. Taking the Epistles in what is generally regarded to be their chronological order, we naturally commence with the prayer found in 1 Thess. iii. 11-13. In this passage we have what is not often found, a prayer for himself associated with prayer for others.

      1. His Prayer for Himself (ver. 11).

      Let us notice Who it is to Whom he prays—God Himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ. The association of Christ with God as One to Whom prayer is addressed is of course very familiar to us, but it ought never to be forgotten that when the Apostle penned these words the association was both striking and significant. For consider: these words were written within twenty-five years of our Lord’s earthly life and ascension, and yet here is this quiet but clear association of Him with the Father, thus testifying in a very remarkable and convincing way to His Godhead as the Hearer of prayer. And this fact is still more noticeable in the original, for St. Paul in this verse breaks one of the familiar rules of grammar, whether of Greek or English. It is well known that whenever there are two nouns to a verb the verb must be in the plural; and yet here the Greek word direct is in the singular, notwithstanding the fact that there are two subjects, the Father and Christ. The same feature is to be found in 2 Thess. ii. 17. It is evident from this what St. Paul thought

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