Verse 26
26. Likewise the Spirit Likewise, that is in addition to all its other gracious offices in Romans 8:11; Romans 8:16.
Our infirmities True reading, our infirmity; namely, our ignorant infirmity regarding prayer, mentioned in next clause.
Should pray for If we look into recorded heathen prayers we find them offered almost exclusively for earthly goods; for goods which may prove our harm and ruin. The spirit of Christianity teaches us to be unsure as to the desirableness of any particular human advantage we might name; teaching us rather to leave such things to God, and to aspire after the only true and sure good, God himself.
Maketh intercession While Christ maketh intercession for us above, the blessed Spirit frameth our own intercession for us within. His prayer is an inner prayer within our prayer, a silent Divine voice within our voice, the soul of which our prayer is the body.
Groanings… uttered Groanings not articulated, because pregnant with a meaning too deep for man to shape into words.
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