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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Philippians 1:19 - 1:19
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turn to my salvation - “turn out to me for, (or unto) salvation.” This proclamation of Christ every way will turn out to my spiritual good. Christ, whose interests are my interests, being glorified thereby; and so the coming of His kingdom being furthered, which, when it does come, will bring completed “SALVATION” (Heb 9:28) to me and all whose “earnest expectation” (Phi 1:20) is that Christ may be magnified in them. So far is their preaching from causing me, as they thought, tribulation in my bonds (Phi 1:16). Paul plainly quotes and applies to himself the very words of the Septuagint (Job 13:16), “This shall turn out to my salvation,” which belong to all God’s people of every age, in their tribulation (compare Job 13:15).
through your prayer and the supply - The Greek intimately joins the two nouns together, by having but one preposition and one article: “Through your prayer and (the consequent) supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (obtained for me through your prayer).”