The Last Prayer and the FarewellPaul leaves Miletus, 36-38.

Acts 20:36. And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down. We are acquainted with the attitude which prevailed among Christians in very early times. They were in the habit of kneeling in prayer on ordinary occasions, but they considered standing in prayer the posture most fitting for praise and thanksgiving; so usually on the first day of the week the Lord's day they prayed ‘standing.' This posture in prayer was also adopted during the seven weeks which intervened between Passover and Pentecost, roughly speaking, the ‘forty days,' as they considered this a period of joy and thanksgiving.

And prayed with them all. Professor Plumptre writes ‘that the historian, who has recorded what we may call this charge of St. Paul, shrinks with a natural reverence from reporting his prayer. Ephesians 3:14-21 will enable the thoughtful reader to represent to himself its substance, perhaps even its very thoughts and words.'

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