Four terms are used in the vocabulary of the soul’s inner life. Prayer, proseuchē, and petition, deēsis, are frequently found together in the apostle’s writing and are distinguishable in two ways, according to G. Abbott-Smith’s Lexicon. He says that proseuchē is used of prayer in general, while deēsis gives prominence to the sense of need. On the other hand, deēsis is used as well of requests from man to man, while proseuchē is limited to prayer to God. Requests, aitēmata, is a word which specifies