Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 4:2

2 Continue in prayer e, and watch in the same with thanksgiving .

Endeavouring to keep the heart in all fit seasons unto this, as an help to the precedent and subsequent duties, Psal. 5.3. Mark, 13.33, &c. Act. 12▪ 12. Rom. 12.12. 1 Thess. 5.17. I[illegible: 1 letter]m. 5.16. Rev. 3.2.

With acknowledgment of thanks for what we have already received, Psal. 116.12, 13. 1 Thess. 5.18.

Persev[illegible: 2 letters]e, or hold on strongly in Prayer with fervency, we are apt to grow sluggish and indisposed, and therefore have need of quickning to this duty, Luk. 18.1. Eph. 6.18.