supplications

[Leo]. in supplications and prayers -- Greek, "in her supplications and prayers"; the former signifies asking under a sense of need, the latter, prayer (see on [2475] 1Ti 2: 1; [2476] Php 4: 6). night and day -- another coincidence with Luke (Lu 18: 7, "cry day and night"); contrast Satan's accusations "day and night" (Re 12: 10).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The "spirit of supplications" is the mercury whose rise or fall is an unerring test of the state of the Church [Moore].

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

"the secret place of the Most High," pouring out His soul "in supplications and prayers, with strong crying and tears" (Heb 5: 7).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Their cries were partly in Egyptian, partly in their own tongue, but the cause of their terror and the burden of their supplications were the same.

The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

Objection 1: It would seem that the parts of prayer are unfittingly described as supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

You bid me finish the poem in his honour which I had begun; and although I have been diverted from it by business, and still more by my feelings, yet, since Cæsar knows that I did begin something, I will return to my design, and will complete in these leisure days of the "supplications," [680] during which I greatly rejoice that our friend Messalla and the rest are at last relieved from worry.

The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yet, as he walked to-day, the centre of ten thousand observers, with eyes discreetly fixed on the ground, veiling his head at times and muttering very rapidly the words of the "supplications," there was something many spectators may have noted as a thing new in their experience, for Aurelius, unlike his predecessors, took all this with absolute seriousness.

Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 Walter Pater 1866

In all probability the "supplications" for ministerial visits that were laid before the Synod of Philadelphia, then the only Synod of Presbyterian clergy in the United States, came, in part, from the bounds of Orange county, North Carolina.

Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

Coming from Pennsylvania here, these people naturally looked to the Synod of Philadelphia, and the Presbyteries of which it was composed, for their ministers; and being many of them pious people, their "supplications" for ministerial labor appear very early on the records of the Synod.

Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers 1846

What concerns 'supplications', there is some disagreement whether Allah can be influence by prayer or not.

Jihad Watch 2008