Given by: the high priest, promising the people the fruit of steadfast prayer. Given to: the reader, as a call to finish the work of prayer begun.

A besieged people needed not only to begin to pray but to keep on; the priest's word framed steadfastness in the work already begun as the condition of God's deliverance.

So shall all the enemies of Israel be, if you persevere in this work which you have begun.

Persevere in the work of prayer you have begun, for God grants deliverance to those who do not abandon it half-finished.

Judith 4:13

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