What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Que faire donc? Je prierai par l'esprit, mais je prierai aussi avec l'intelligence; je chanterai par l'esprit, mais je chanterai aussi avec l'intelligence.
KJV
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
n interior act which God alone knows, rather than by words, according to the saying of the Apostle ( 1 Cor. 14:15 ), "I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding": and again because, as Augustine says (De Cura pro mortuis xiii) the "dead, even the saints,…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
ration is taken from "oratio" [prayer]. But prayer consists chiefly in an interior act, according to 1 Cor. 14:15, "I will pray with the spirit, I will pray also with the understanding." Therefore adoration denotes chiefly a spiritual act. Objection 3: Further, acts of the body p…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)
a optime discrevit: Orabo spiritu, orabo et mente: [Col. 0478D] psallam spiritu, psallam et mente (I Cor. XIV, 15) . Spiritum occultas significationes, quae sunt in Scripturis sanctis, nominavit; et mentem manifestas harum intelligentias appellavit. {216} Voluit enim nos cum in…
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