God may be gracious unto them, and may look upon them; and we leave it as some kind of general prayer. Positively, the Apostle’s first petition is, ‘That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man’. Here we have what is always characteristic of Paul’s prayers, and at the same time characteristic of all the biblical prayers, Old Testament and New. At the same time we are introduced to the characteristic Christian way of viewing