so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;
Verse 13. So that my bonds in Christ. Marg., for. The meaning is, his bonds in the cause of Christ. He was imprisoned because he preached Christ, , and was really suffering because of his attachment to the Redeemer. It was not for crime, but for being a Christian--for had he not been a Christian, he would have escaped all this.
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, "PrÃ&brvbrtorium," that is, the barrack of the PrÃ&brvbrtorian guards attached to the palace of Nero, on the Palatine hill at Rome; not the general PrÃ&brvbrtorian camp outside of the city; for this was not connected with "CÃ&brvbrsar's household," which Phi 4:22...
So that my bonds in Christ,.... What he had more darkly hinted before, he more clearly expresses here; the things that happened to him were his bonds; he was now a prisoner at Rome and in chains; though he had the liberty of dwelling alone in his own hired house, and of his friends coming to see him and hear him, yet he was bound...