And this is the confidence which we have towards him: That, whatsoever we shall ask according to his will, he heareth us.
Glossa Ordinaria
And this is the confidence. In many ways he impresses the same things which he had promised above, that he may rouse us more livingly to prayer. According to his will. By which he wills that we ask what he wills, or that we come to the asking such as he desires us to be. If we will our own salvation and our neighbours', we are not at discord with the will of God. If our will through ignorance departs from the will of God, the good will of God corrects our foolish will, as befell the apostle Paul.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.