Concordant Commentary by A. E. Knoch
Philippians 4:22-23
22 Grace finds its trophies in the very household of that infamous monster, Nero!
23 The epistle closes as it began, with the emphasis on conduct, by the use of the title Lord.
22 Grace finds its trophies in the very household of that infamous monster, Nero!
23 The epistle closes as it began, with the emphasis on conduct, by the use of the title Lord.
Verse 22. _ALL THE SAINTS_] All the Christians now at Rome. _THEY THAT ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD._] Nero was at this time emperor of Rome: a more worthless, cruel, and diabolic wretch never disgrace...
ALL THE SAINTS SALUTE YOU - All in Rome, where this Epistle was written. No individuals are specified, perhaps because none of the Christians at Rome wore personally known to the church at Philippi. T...
IV. CHRIST, THE BELIEVER'S STRENGTH, SUFFICIENT FOR ALL CIRCUMSTANCES CHAPTER 4 _ 1. Stand fast and rejoice (Philippians 4:1)_ 2. Dependence on God and true heart occupation (Philippians 4:5) 3. I...
PHP_4:19-23. CONCLUSION. Paul's wants have been supplied, now he is assured that the wants of his friends will also be provided for; the ground of this hope is that God has given glorious riches in Ch...
GREAT THINGS IN THE LORD (Php_4:1) _ 4:1 So, then, my brothers, whom I love and yearn for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved._ Through this passage breathes the warmth of Paul's a...
Greet in Christ Jesus every one of God's dedicated people. The brothers who are with me send you their greetings, especially those of Caesar's household. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you...
CHIEFLY. specially. OF. App-104. HOUSEHOLD. Literally house. Greek. _oikia_....
_chiefly_ More exactly, BUT CHIEFLY. There was something marked and emphatic about this message. _they of Cesar's household_ "Probably slaves and freedmen attached to the palace" (Lightfoot). It has b...
ΜΆΛΙΣΤΑ ΔῈ. There was something marked and emphatic about this message. ΟἹ ἘΚ ΤΗ͂Σ ΚΑΊΣΑΡΟΣ ΟἸΚΊΑΣ. “Probably slaves and freedmen attached to the palace” (Lightfoot). It has been thought, on the other...
SALUTATIONS AND FAREWELL...
ΜΆΛΙΣΤΑ (G3122) особенно, ΟΊ έκ ΤΗΣ ΚΑΊΣΑΡΟΣ ΟΙΚΊΑΣ домашние кесаря. Возможно, рабы и вольноотпущенные, служившие при дворце (Lightfoot, особ. 17178; DPL, 83-84)....
21. SALUTE EVERY SAINT IN CHRIST JESUS. THE BRETHREN THAT ARE WITH ME SALUTE YOU. 22. ALL THE SAINTS SALUTE YOU, ESPECIALLY THEY THAT ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD. _Translation and Paraphrase_ 21. Gree...
All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household. CHIEFLY (AS BEING NEAREST ME) THEY THAT ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD - dependents of Nero, probably converted through Paul while...
Final Charge. Acknowledgement of Philippian Bounty _VI. Closing Exhortations (Philippians 4:1)_ § 15. Philippians 4:1. With heightened feeling St. Paul resumes the vein of exhortation commenced in Ph...
LETTER OF JOY Paul’s Letter to the Philippians _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 4 PAUL APPEALS FOR A STEADY *FAITH AND FOR UNITY 4:1-3 V1 So then, my dear brothers and sisters, whom I love and I want very...
OF CÆSAR’S HOUSEHOLD. — The “household of Cæsar” included a multitude of persons of all ages and ranks and occupations. Dr. Lightfoot, in a very interesting excursus on this verse, remarking that thes...
CHAPTER 19 GIFTS AND SACRIFICES. Philippians 4:10 (R.V). THE Apostle had urged joy. in the Lord, and a moderation visible to all men. If any one supposes that in doing so he recommended a stoical te...
GREETINGS AND BENEDICTION....
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...
“MY GOD SHALL SUPPLY EVERY NEED” Philippians 4:10 The Apostle had been glad to receive the gifts of his friends, because these evidenced their earnest religious life. It was fruit that increased to t...
Passing from particular to general instruction, the apostle first enjoined the grace of rejoicing. Twice he repeated his injunction. Moreover, he charged the Philippians that forbearance toward all me...
CLOSING WORDS Paul reminded the Philippian brethren that all praise and glory rightly belong to God. In the sermon on the mount, Christ told his disciples, "Let your light so shine before men, that th...
All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of (p) Caesar's household. (p) Those who belong to the emperor Nero....
(10) В¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. (11) Not that I speak in respect of wan...
There is no epistle in the New Testament which gives so little space to the development of. doctrine as this to the Philippians. Need it be said that it has not the less its own proper office on that...
_SAINTS IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF CÆSAR_ ‘All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Cæsar’s household.’ Php_4:22 Who are these of whom the text speaks, ‘saints of Cæsar’s household’? We do not...
22_The brethren that are with me salute you _In these salutations he names first of all his intimate associates, (260) afterwards all the saints in general, that is, the whole Church at Rome, but chie...
The Philippians were therefore to stand fast in the Lord. This is difficult when the general tone is lowered; painful also, for one's walk becomes much more solitary, and the hearts of others are stra...
ALL THE SAINTS SALUTE YOU,.... The members of the church at Rome, CHIEFLY THEY THAT ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD; for by means of the apostle's bonds, which were made manifest in the emperor's palace, C...
All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar's household. Ver. 22. _All the saints salute you_] Christianity is no enemy to courtesy. God's scholars are taught better manners than to ne...
_Now unto God and_, rather, even _our Father_ Or, _To our God and Father_, as τω Θεω και πατρι ημων properly signifies, _be glory for ever_ Which is justly due, and shall certainly be given to him by...
THEY THAT ARE OF CESAR'S HOUSEHOLD; persons attached to the emperor's household, who had been converted by the labors of Paul or his associates....
ALL THE SAINTS SALUTE YOU, CHIEFLY THEY THAT ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD....
GREETINGS AND CONCLUSION....
His heart overflowing at the contemplation of such an Object, the apostle in Ch.4 dwells upon the sufficiency of the Lord Jesus to supremely satisfy the soul. If in Ch.3 Christ is his Object in Glory,...
The Secret of Contentment 1 Peter 4:10-23 1. KEY WORDS 10 Greatly, flourished, careful, opportunity 11 Want, learned, state, content 12 Abased, abound, full, hungry, need 13 Can do, through, str...
“ALL THE SAINTS SALUTE YOU, ESPECIALLY THEY THAT ARE OF CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD” “All the saints salute you”: All the Christians in Rome spend greetings. “Especially they that are of Caesar's household”:...
20-23 The apostle ends with praises to God. We should look upon God, under all our weakness and fears, not as an enemy, but as a Father, disposed to pity us and help us. We must give glory to God as a...
The rest of the Christians at Rome do the same; more especially they of Nero the emperor's own family and court, his domestics, PHILIPPIANS 1:13. It seems there were some there truly pious and Christi...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus For, while I was yet a boy, I saw thee in Lower Asia with Polycarp, distinguishing thyself in the royal court,[3]...
Php_4:22 All G3956 saints G40 greet G782 (G5736) you G5209 but G1161 especially G3122 of G1537 Caesars G2541 household G3614...
FINAL GREETINGS (PHILIPPIANS 4:21). His letter nearly completed Paul finishes it off in his usual manner with greetings and salutations, first those addressed to the addressees, and then the salutati...
‘All the saints salute you, especially those who are of Caesar's household.' The greeting then widens to encompass the whole church in the city from which he was writing, probably Rome. ‘All the saint...
Philippians 4:22. ALL THE SAINTS SALUTE YOU. The greeting of the one church to the other. Though unknown, they were now brethren in Christ, and so could not be without interest in one another. There m...
_Greetings and Benedictions,_ 21-23. He includes the whole church in his love, and sends, as a token of the oneness of all His servants in Christ, the salutations of the church in Rome, many of whom...
Philippians 4:22 The Spirit of Christianity. I. The words of the text suggest to us that the Gospel is a spiritually restoring power. It makes men, sinful men, saints; it is a power to raise, ennoble...
Philippians 4:1. _Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, do stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved._ You know that the church at Philippi was very dear to the apos...
This Epistle was written by Paul when he was in prison, with iron fetters about his wrists; yet there is no iron in the Epistle. It is full of light, life, love, and joy, blended with traces of sorro...
CONTENTS: Christ the believer's strength and source of joy and peace. Giver of victory over anxiety. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Euodias, Syntyche, Clement. CONCLUSION: The believer's hope and pro...
Philippians 4:6. _Be careful for nothing let your requests be made known unto God._ Not that we are to abandon all care, or become careless, about the things of the present life, for that would be inc...
ALL GOD'S PEOPLE HERE. He expands this greeting to include all the Christians at Rome. [_Saints:_ see note on 1 Corinthians 6:11.] THE EMPEROR'S PALACE. The _Expositor's Greek Testament_ says: "SH. po...
_Now unto God and our Father _ THE SPIRIT IN WHICH TO CLOSE THE YEAR I. The doxology. 1. We are to give glory to God as to our heavenly Father. We are not to regard Him as a tyrant, nor as a govern...
_Chiefly they that are of Caesar’s household _ THESE WORDS I. Remind us of the adaptation of the gospel to men everywhere. 1. It is no part of God’s purpose in redemption to limit its blessings to a...
PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 4:21 The call to GREET EVERY SAINT shows the personal nature of Paul’s letter. CAESAR’S HOUSEHOLD could refer to the “royal family” and to anyone connected with the emp...
PHILIPPIANS—NOTE ON PHILIPPIANS 4:1 Concluding Encouragement and Thanksgiving. Paul calls for reconciliation, joyful faith, and disciplined thinking....
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Philippians 4:22. THE SAINTS … OF CÆSAR’S HOUSEHOLD.—This expression does not oblige us to think that any relatives of Cæsar had embraced Christianity. It comprises a...
EXPOSITION PHILIPPIANS 4:1 THEREFORE, MY BRETHREN DEARLY BELOVED AND LONGED FOR, MY JOY AND CROWN. The apostle here, as in 1 Corinthians 15:58, urges the hope of a glorious resurrection as an incent...
Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for (Philippians 4:1), What a beautiful words by Paul to the church, expressing his heart, just bearing his heart to them, "Dearly beloved, I long for...
1 Peter 5:13; 2 Corinthians 13:13; 3 John 1:14; Hebrews 13:24;...
Of Caesar's household. Probably the slaves and freedmen attached to the palace....