Philippians 1:13 - Exposition

So that my bonds in Christ are manifest ; rather, as R.V., so that my bonds became manifest in Christ. At first he seemed like ether prisoners; afterwards it became known that he suffered bonds, not for any crime, but in Christ, i.e. in fellowship with Christ and in consequence of the relation in which he stood to Christ. In all the palace; rather , as R.V., throughout the whole Praetorian Guard ; literally, in the whole praetorium , The word elsewhere means a governor's house: Pilate's house in the Gospels, Herod's palace in Acts 23:35 . But at Rome the name so used would give unnecessary offense, and there is no proof that it was ever used for the palatium there. St. Paul must have heard it constantly as the name of the Praetorian regiment; he was kept chained to a soldier of that corps ( Acts 28:16 ); and as his guard was continually relieved, his name and sufferings for Christ would become gradually known throughout the force. Others, on the authority of a passage in Dion Cassius, understand the word of the barracks of that part of the Praetorian guard attached to the imperial residence on the Palatine. But the passage relates to the time of Augustus, before the Praetorian cohorts were established by Tiberius in the camp outside of the Colline Gate. And in all other places ; rather, as R.V. and to all the rest ; generally, that is, throughout the city.