Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume IV/Commodianus/The Instructions of Commodianus/Chapter 79

LXXIX.&#8212;To the Petitioners.

If thou desirest, when praying, to be heard from heaven, break the chains from the lurking-places of wickedness; or if, pitying the poor, thou prayest by thy benefits, doubt not but what thou shalt have asked may be given to the petitioner.&#160; Then truly, if void of benefits, thou adorest God, do not thus at all make thy prayers vainly.