<p>1:4 <i>I thank my God always, making</i><i> mention of you always in my prayers</i>- This is clearly alluding to the Is. 62:6,7 passage, about always making mention of Jerusalem in prayer. But for Paul, the true city of God was now the scattered group of Christian believers around the Roman empire of the first century. Jewish minds would&rsquo;ve picked up Paul&rsquo;s purposeful allusion to the &lsquo;always&rsquo; prayers for Jerusalem; and would&rsquo;ve marvelled that he saw the great holy city as now the bunch of guys whom he&rsquo;d baptized around the place, and that instead of a city, it was those very real men and women who filled his thoughts, prayers and yearnings. Paul saw himself indeed as the watchman upon Zion&rsquo;s walls- but watching over the people of God, not a physical city.</p>