Philippians 1:12

Account of St Paul's present Circumstances and Experience

12. But Better, now, as R.V.

I would, &c. More lit. and simply, I wish you to know; I desire to inform you.

the thingswhich happened unto me More lit. and simply, my circumstances, with no special reference to the past. Wyclif renders, with the Vulgate Latin, "the thingis that ben aboute me"; so the (Romanist) Rhemish version 1582; "the things about me"; Tyndale, "my business." He means his imprisonment, which had proved and was proving a direct and indirect occasion for Gospel-work.

rather than otherwise, as had seemed so likely à priori.

furtherance Better, as R.V., progress. The Greek gives the idea of an advance made bythe Gospel.