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NASB | Philippians 1:13 so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Philippians 1:13 My imprisonment in [the cause of] Christ has become common knowledge throughout the whole praetorian (imperial) guard and to everyone else. |
Bible Question: Where in Scripture does it refer to people called by God for special tasks to be held to a stricter accountability. Thank you. Judy |
Bible Answer: If I read you correctly Paul is a very example of person that called by God for special tasks. I put here maybe one fourth of his Evangelical Journey Paul As he waited at Troas for indications of the will of God as to his future movements, he saw, in the vision of the night, a man from the opposite shores of Macedonia standing before him, and heard him cry, "Come over, and help us" (Ac 16:9). Paul recognized in this vision a message from the Lord, In Macedonia, churches were planted in Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea. Leaving this province, Achaia, Athens, but quitted it after, probably, a brief sojourn (Ac 17:17-31). He passed over to Corinth, Thessalonica, his earliest apostolic letters, and then sailed for Syria. third missionary tour. He journeyed by land in the "upper coasts" (the more eastern parts) of Asia Minor, Ephesus, where he tarried for no less than three years, engaged in Christian labour. First Epistle to the Corinthians The silversmiths, whose traffic in the little images which they made was in danger organized a riot against Paul, and he left the city, and proceeded to Troas (2Co 2:12), he went to meet Titus in Macedonia. Having spent Macedonia, visiting the churches there, specially the churches of Philippi, Thessalonica, and Berea, probably penetrating into the interior, to the shores of the Adriatic (Ro 15:19), he then came into Greece, where he abode three month, spending probably the greater part of this time in Corinth (Ac 20:2). he wrote his Epistle to the Galatians, and also the great Epistle to the Romans. At the end of the three months he left Achaia for Macedonia, thence crossed into Asia Minor, and touching at Miletus, there addressed the Ephesian presbyters, whom he had sent for to meet him (Ac 20:17), and then sailed for Tyre, finally reaching Jerusalem, probably in the spring of A.D. 58. He was almost murdered by a Jewish mob in the temple. (See Temple, Herod's.) Rescued from their violence by the Roman commandant, he was conveyed as a prisoner to Caesarea, where, from various causes, he was detained a prisoner for two years in Herod's praetorium (Ac 23:35). "Paul was not kept in close confinement; he had at least the range of the barracks in which he was detained. for him, or perhaps encountering dangers in which they sorely needed his presence. It was a mysterious providence which thus arrested his energies and condemned the ardent worker to inactivity; yet we can now see the reason for it. But judging it right at this crisis to claim the privilege of a Roman citizen, he appealed to the emperor (Ac 25:11). Such an appeal could not be disregarded, and Paul was at once sent on to Rome under the charge of one Julius, a centurion of the "Augustan cohort." After a long and perilous voyage, he at length reached the imperial city in the early spring, probably, of A.D. 61. Here he was permitted to occupy his own hired house, under constant military custody. This privilege was accorded to him, no doubt, because he was a Roman citizen, and as such could not be put into prison without a trial. The soldiers who kept guard over Paul were of course changed at frequent intervals, and thus he had the opportunity of preaching the gospel to many of them during these "two whole years," and with the blessed result of spreading among the imperial guards, and even in Caesar's household, an interest in the truth (Php 1:13). His rooms were resorted to by many anxious inquirers, both Jews and Gentiles (Ac 28:23,30-31), and thus his imprisonment "turned rather to the furtherance of the gospel," and his "hired house" became the centre of a gracious influence which spread over the whole city. During this period the apostle wrote his epistles to the Colossians, Ephesians, Philippians, and to Philemon, and probably also to the Hebrews. This first imprisonment came at length to a close, Once more he set out on his missionary labours, probably visiting western and eastern Europe and Asia Minor. During this period of freedom he wrote his First Epistle to Timothy and his Epistle to Titus. The year of his release was signalized by the burning of Rome, which Nero saw fit to attribute to the Christians. A fierce persecution now broke out against the Christians. During this imprisonment he probably wrote the Second Epistle to Timothy, the last he ever wrote. The trial ended: Paul was condemned, and delivered over to the executioner. He was led out of the city, with a crowd of the lowest rabble at his heels. The fatal spot was reached; he knelt beside the block; the headsman's axe gleamed in the sun and fell; and the head of the apostle of the world rolled down in the dust" (probably A.D. 66), four years before the fall of Jerusalem. |
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