In the same way. This is Paul's third reason (see Romans 8:18). The Spirit himself helps our weakness and is our prayer-partner. R. W. Dale wrote: "The whole passage illustrates in even a startling manner the truth and reality of the coming' of the Holy Spirit - the extent to which, if I may venture to say it, He has separated Himself - as Christ did at His Incarnation - from His eternal glory and blessedness, and entered into the life of man. His intercession for us - so intimately does He share all the evils of our condition - is a kind of agony."

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