3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.



Ver. 3. Remember them that, &c.] Learn hence, saith one, that it is no new thing for the world to put bonds on them, who seek to bring them out of bondage. It is very probable that Micaiah was that disguised prophet, who brought to Ahab the fearful message of displeasure and death for dismissing Benhadad, for which he ever after hated him, and held him in prison.



As being yourselves also in the body] Not the body of Christ, or the Church, as Calvin senseth it, but in the body of flesh and frailty, subject to like afflictions; so Erasmus, Beza, Pareus, and others. Now such as these must be remembered, so Heb_13:7; Heb_13:16. Hence this chapter is called by a divine, the Chapter of Remembrances, or the Remembrancer’s Chapter.