19保罗在监狱中一定受了许多的虐待,但他还能够喜乐,并且向狱卒显明基督无限的伟大。保罗特别显出基督无穷无尽的忍耐。……保罗天天在主里喜乐,他的喜乐没有随着时间消减。他能够在喜乐中显出他所经历、所享受那无法测度的基督。保罗就这样彰显、展览、高举并颂扬基督。我不相信狱卒会跟保罗过不去,或是保罗会跟狱卒过不去。相反的,他是基督活的见证人,见证基督的力量、大能、忍耐、爱心和智慧,都是无限无量的。狱卒可能认为保罗很奇怪、很特别,认为他有一些东西是他们没有的。他们在保罗身上所感觉到的,乃是显大的基督。保罗在监狱里,把基督的伟大扩大的彰显了出来。……因着保罗这样显大基督,他就能胜过一切的环境(腓立比书生命读经,五七至五八页)。
19Even though Paul must have been mistreated in prison, he could be happy and display to the guards the unlimited greatness of Christ. In particular, Paul displayed Christ’s inexhaustible patience…Day by day, Paul was happy in the Lord. His happiness did not diminish as time went by. In his happiness he could show forth the immeasurable Christ he experienced and enjoyed. By this way Paul expressed, exhibited, exalted, and extolled Christ. I do not believe that Paul was offended by the jailers or that he offended them. Rather, he was a living witness of Christ, testifying of His ability, power, patience, love, and wisdom, all without measure. The guards may have considered Paul to be strange or peculiar, viewing him as possessing something which they did not have. What they sensed in Paul was Christ magnified. While he was in prison, Paul expressed the greatness of Christ in an enlarged way…By magnifying Christ in this way, Paul could overcome any situation. (Life-study of Philippians, pp. 49-50)