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Ephesians 6:20

Ephesians 6:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

For which I am an ambassador in chains. Thereby not only physically helpless, but in danger of being subdued into tameness, the ordinary effect of captivity, and thus reduced to a spirit not befitting the bearer of a great message from the King of kings. That in it—i.e., in the matter of it, of the gospel—I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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MISSION OF TYCHICUS.

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