Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Philippians 4:22

μάλιστα. If by this time, as is probable (see Introduction), Paul had been removed from his lodging to one of the state prisons near the palace, it is plain that Christians of the Imperial household would have special opportunities of close intercourse with him. οἱ ἐκ τῆς Κ. οἰκίας. See esp [73]. SH [74]., Romans, pp. 418 423, as supplementary to Lightfoot's important discussion; and also, Riggenbach, Neue Jahrb. f. deutsche Th., 1892, pp. 498 525, Mommsen, Handbuch d. röm. Alterth., ii., 2 (Exodus 3), pp. 833 839. SH [75]. point out that a number of the names mentioned for salutation in Romans 16. occur in the Corpus of Latin Inscriptions as members of the Imperial household, which seems to have been one of the chief centres of the Christian community at Rome. In the first century A.D. most of the Emperor's household servants came from the East. Under Claudius and Nero they were people of real importance. And we find, from history, that Christian slaves had great influence over their masters. See Friedländer, Sittengeschichte Roms, i., pp. 70 ff., 74, 110 112.

[73] especially.

[74]. Sanday and Headlam (Romans).

[75]. Sanday and Headlam (Romans).

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