Verse 12
II. THE APOSTLE’S STATEMENT OF HIS CONDITION AT ROME, Philippians 1:12-26.
1. Results of his imprisonment, Philippians 1:12-18.
12. Understand The Philippians had shown their anxiety in his behalf by sending Epaphroditus to him, who, in addition to bearing their gift, was, beyond question, charged with numerous messages of sympathy and love. No doubt they wished to receive definite information of the apostle’s circumstances from himself. His situation had become truly more grave than formerly. He probably no longer enjoyed the comparative freedom of living in “his own hired house,” but was confined to the barracks of the pretorian guard. His imprisonment was a grievance to himself, and in itself promised no advantage to the gospel. Yet now he writes that things with him, more than was to have been anticipated, have turned out to the furtherance of the gospel. Good news about the gospel is for them the best news about himself.
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