and peculiar prayer exceeded all human understanding.” And yet Bengel is right when he characterizes it in these brief and pithy words: “Verbis facillimum, sensibus profundissimum—(quite easy in its words, most profound in its meaning).” One thing must never be forgotten in reading this chapter or in trying to interpret it: It is, from beginning to end, a prayer and not an address, like the preceding discourses to the disciples. The opening words of the chapter clearly characterize its contents as