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a perfectly healthy person / who felt no pain / who still had all his thoughts together / and had ample time for praying / would nonetheless have found enough in such a prayer / to occupy his devotion Original: Andacht. In this context, it refers to the focused state of worship or the specific time set aside for prayer. for quite a long while.

But there is more. Of these long and rambling prayers / it is also the custom to place many of them one after another for the very same concern Original: Anliegen. A specific petition or situation, such as illness or financial trouble.; And commonly they are such / that in none of them is there much / or anything different / from what is in the others: instead, the same thing is perhaps said ten times in a single prayer / only ever with different and still more different words. However, many good thoughts that are quite necessary to the matter / are not present there at all / in the place where they belong. And those / which are present / stand there without any order Original: Ordnung. Neumann, a scholar and theologian, values a logical or "ordered" progression of thought even in emotional prayer. / just as they / happened to flow from the pen / of the person who composed the prayer.

When I saw this / I was quite well convinced / that a truly fervent