Verse 9
wherein I suffer hardship unto bonds, as a malefactor; but the word of God is not bound.
The word of God is not bound ... Paul comforted himself with the great truth that the Christian message had already been effectively planted upon earth. As Hervey put it:
Though they bind me with an iron chain, they cannot bind the gospel. While I am here shut up in prison, the word of God preached by a thousand tongues, is giving life and liberty to myriads of my brethren of the human race.[13]
White affirmed that the Greek of this verse must be identified, not with any late first century or early second century dating of this epistle, but positively "with the Neronian period."[14]
[13] A. C. Hervey, op. cit., p. 20.
[14] Newport J. D. White, op. cit., p. 162.
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