Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume III/Ethical/On Prayer/Of Place for Prayer

Chapter XXIV.&#8212;Of Place for Prayer.

But how &#8220;in every place,&#8221; since we are prohibited (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 (who, in gaol, in the audience of the prisoners, &#8220;began praying and singing to God&#8221;) is not considered to have been done contrary to the precept; nor yet that which was done by Paul, who in the ship, in presence of all, &#8220;made thanksgiving to God.&#8221;