ast.

[2] The middle suggests a certain fulness of action.

[3] I think the definite article should be supplied in English; the
reference is to the work of works.

[4] I give both the possible renderings of _huper_. Both would
certainly be in place, as he thought of them and prayed and gave thanks
for them.

[5] The derivation is doubtful, but the idea of the word in usage is
clearness, freedom from complication.

[6] With some hesitation I assign to _dikaiosune_ here the meaning of
the righteousness of justification, as in iii. 9.

[7] F. R. Havergal.

[8] Cowper, _Conversation_.

_THE APOSTLE'S POSITION AND CIRCUMSTANCES_

"Yield to the Lord, with simple heart,
All that thou hast and all thou art,
Renounce all strength but strength divine,
And peace shall be for ever thine."
MME DE LA MOTHE GUYON, _translated by_ COWPER.

CHAPTER III

THE APOSTLE'S POSITION AND CIRCUMSTANCES

PHILIPPIANS i. 12-20

Disloyal "brethren"--Interest of the paragraph--The victory of
patience--The Praetorian sentinel--Separatism, and how it was met--St
Paul's secret--His "earnest expectation"--"Christ magnified"--"In my
body"

St Paul has spoken his affectionate greeting to the Philippians, and
has opened to them the warm depths of his friendship with them in the
Lord. What he feels towards them "in the heart of Christ Jesus," what
he prays for them in regard of the growth and fruit of their new life,
all has been expressed. It is time now to meet their loving anxieties
with some account of his own position, and the circumstances of the
mission in the City. Through this passage let us follow him now; we
shall find that the quiet picture, full of strong human interest in its
details, is suffused all over with the glory of the presence and the
peace of Christ.

Ver. 12. +Now I wish you to know, brethren, that my position and
circumstances+ (_ta kat eme_, "_the things related to me_") +have come
out+, have resulted, +rather for the progress of the Gospel+ message
and enter-

Ver. 13. prise, than otherwise; +so that my bonds+, my imprisonment,
with its _custodia militaris_, +are become unmistakable+ (_phanerous_)
as being +in Christ+; as due to no social or political crime, but to
the name and cause of the Messiah of Israel, the Saviour of the world.
This is the case in the +whole Praetorium+,[1] in all ranks of the
Imperial Guard, +and among other people in general+ (_tois loipois