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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Philippians 1:13 - 1:13
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my bonds in Christ - rather as Greek, “So that my bonds have become manifest in Christ,” that is, known, as endured in Christ’s cause.
palace - literally, “Praetorium,” that is, the barrack of the Praetorian guards attached to the palace of Nero, on the Palatine hill at Rome; not the general Praetorian camp outside of the city; for this was not connected with “Caesar’s household,” which Phi 4:22 shows the Praetorium here meant was. The emperor was “Praetor,” or Commander-in-Chief; naturally then the barrack of his bodyguard was called the Praetorium. Paul seems now not to have been at large in his own hired house, though chained to a soldier, as in Act 28:16, Act 28:20, Act 28:30, Act 28:31, but in strict custody in the Praetorium; a change which probably took place on Tigellinus becoming Praetorian Prefect. See on Introduction.
in all other places - so Chrysostom. Or else, “TO all the rest,” that is, “manifest to all the other” Praetorian soldiers stationed elsewhere, through the instrumentality of the Praetorian household guards who might for the time be attached to the emperor’s palace, and who relieved one another in succession. Paul had been now upwards of two years a prisoner, so that there was time for his cause and the Gospel having become widely known at Rome.