Context for Zenos: Zenos is creating a series of parallelisms. He is noting specific places, but the intent is not to define places, but rather to indicate that all places are available for prayer. Each of his statements includes a place and a prayer. The common thread is prayer, with the place changing. The next conceptual movement in the series is outside-in. He begins in the wilderness, and moves closer and closer to the very person. This movement takes the symbolic invocation of place and moves it away from the physical into the heart of the one who prays.