ACC ~ Colossians 4 v12 - 13

“STRIVING” IN PRAYER FOR YOU. CHRYSOSTOM: And he says, “always striving for you in prayers.” He did not write simply “praying,” but “striving,” trembling and fearing. “For I bear him witness,” Paul says, “that he has much zeal for you.” HOMILIES ON COLOSSIANS 12.

ANONYMOUS: Paul said to the brothers in the Lord: “Epaphras wrestles for your sakes in his prayer.” This is the prayer which our Lord gasped out forcefully when “he was in anguish in prayer, and his sweat was like drops of blood,”and he shed many tears. BOOK OF STEPS 18.3.

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