shall go unto him at midnight Orientals often travel at night to avoid the heat. Although idle repetitions in prayer are forbidden, persistency and importunity in prayer wrestling with God, and not letting Him go until He has blessed us are here distinctly taught (see Luke 18:1-8), as they also were in the acted parable of our Lord's apparent repulse of the Syro-Phoenician woman, Matthew 15:27-28.

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