Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;
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Gaius Marius Victorinus
AD 400
Every prayer that we offer up to God is made either in thanks for what we have received or in petition to receive something else. We are encouraged to pray both for ourselves and for those we love. So Paul says, “I make mention of you in my prayer.” “Therefore my chief prayer is first on my account, then on yours.” .
Consider how many people he had in mind, whom it was hard work even to remember. All these he has remembered in his prayers, giving thanks to God as though he himself were the chief beneficiary…. Everywhere he joins faith and love in a remarkable union. .
