“Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. — The πνεῦμα (pneuma, "Spirit") co-suffers (συναντιλαμβάνω, synantilambánō, "helps together") in human ἀσθένεια (astheneia, "weakness"). When believers lack knowledge of what to pray (οἶδα, oida, "know"), the Spirit's ὑπερεντυγχάνω (hyperentynchanō, "intercedes beyond") with ἀλάλητος στεναγμός (alálētos stenagmos, "groaning that cannot be uttered"). The Spirit's prayer transcends human speech.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:26
“Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities.” For the one point is your own, that of patience, but the other comes of the Spirit's furnishings, Who also cherishes (Gr. anoints) you unto this hope, and through it again lightens your labors. Then that you might know that it is not in your labors only and dangers that this grace stands by you, but even in things the most easy seemingly, it works with you, and on all occasions bears its part in the alliance, he proceeds to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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