Throughout the whole praetorian guard (εν ολω τω πραιτωριω). There were originally ten thousand of these picked soldiers, concentr…

So that my bonds in Christ. The margin says for. The meaning is, his bonds in the cause of Christ. He was imprisoned bec…

My bonds in Christ are manifest.—Properly, My bonds are made manifest as in Christ—that is, my captivity is understood as…

Notice the beautiful self-forgetfulness of the apostle Paul. As long as the gospel could be more widely published, he did not mind where he was, or…

There were at least two ways in which the Gospel had been advanced through Paul’s circumstances. The first was that it had been made clear througho…

So that my bonds. He uses the expression—in Christ, to mean in the affairs, or in the cause of Christ, for he s…

So that my bonds in Christ
What he had more darkly hinted before, he more clearly expresses here; the things that hap…

The apostle was a prisoner at Rome; and to counteract the offence of the cross, he shows the wisdom and goodness of God in his sufferings. These th…

Having stated the reason for hope concerning the future, he now indicates the matters for which he prays for them. First, he mentions his desire, w…