but he says, “We pray to God that ye do no evil, but that ye should do that which is good.” And yet he was also in the habit of speaking to them, and doing all those things which I have mentioned,—he admonished, he taught, he exhorted, he rebuked. But he knew that all these things which he was doing in the way of planting and watering openly were of no avail unless He who giveth the increase in secret should give heed to his prayer on their behalf.
Paul prays, yes, but he also admonishes, teaches, exhorts, and rebukes; and it all depends on grace, on God who gives the increase. [The question for the treatise is whether erring Christians should be prayed for alone and not directly addressed.]