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Php 4:6. Μηδὲν μεριμνᾶτε, be careful for nothing) When others do not treat you with kindliness, when different things are pressing upon you, be not over-careful, rather pray. Care and prayer, [and likewise care and joy.-V. g.] are more opposed to one another than fire and water.-ἐν παντὶ) in every thing.-μετὰ εὐχαριστίας, with thanksgiving) This is the best characteristic of a soul freed from cares, and of prayer joined with resignation of the human will. Accordingly peace follows, Php 4:7; and thanksgiving and peace are united together also in Col 3:15. All things are thereby safe and tranquil.-τὰ αἰτήματα, requests) A thing sought, the subject δεήσεως, of supplication.-γνωριζέσθω, be made known) Those who veil, stifle, and restrain their desires, with preposterous shame and distrusting modesty, as if they were too small or too great, are tortured with cares. Those who lay them before God with a generous and filial confidence, are freed from difficulties. The Psalms abound in confessions of that sort.-πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, to God) Even though often men should be ignorant of them, and you should modestly conceal them from your fellowmen. Paul had not even asked aught from the Philippians. [But the exercise of unaffected candour towards men, Php 4:5, and here towards GOD, is perfectly consistent.-V. g.]