Chapter XXIV.--Of Place for Prayer.
But how "in every place," since we are prohibited [8920] (from praying) in public? In every place, he means, which opportunity or even necessity, may have rendered suitable: for that which was done by the apostles [8921] (who, in gaol, in the audience of the prisoners, "began praying and singing to God") is not considered to have been done contrary to the precept; nor yet that which was done by Paul, [8922] who in the ship, in presence of all, "made thanksgiving to God." [8923]