The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
16 Some, I say, from contention. Here we have a lengthened detail, in which he explains more fully the foregoing statement; for he repeats that there are two classes of men that are stirred up by his bonds to preach Christ — the one influenced by contention, that is, by depraved affection — the other by pious zeal, as being desirous to maintain along with...
You might stumble thinking that if this doctrine were truly of God, He would not cast His instrument aside like a broken vessel. But a strange chemistry of Providence extracts great good from great evil: the gospel advances though I am confined, for the word of God cannot be imprisoned as my body is.
AI summary
Commenting on Philippians 1:12-20
The one preach Christ of contention,.... That is, those that preached of envy and strife, an not of good will to Christ, to the Gospel, to the souls of men, or to the apostle; and though they preached Christ, yet not sincerely or "purely"; not but that they delivered the sincere milk of the word, and preached the pure Gospel of Christ, without any mixture...