Section 2
an educated upper-class Jew to be chained to a guard in a Roman prison. It was also dishonor able for such an apostle of the Lord Jesus to be imprisoned in such a way. Nevertheless, Paul testified that his situation would turn out to him for salvation.
In 1:19 Paul is not referring to eternal salva tion, the salvation from hell and the judgment of God. That salvation is objective. What Paul has in mind here is a very subjective, experien tial salvation, a salvation experienced not once for all, but moment by moment.
When Paul said that he expected his situa tion to turn out for his salvation, he did not have in mind release from prison. Some readers of the book of Philippians may think that Paul's expectation was that, through the prayers of the saints, especially those in Philippi, he would be released from prison. However, according to the grammatical construction of Philippians 1:19-21, this cannot be the meaning of salvation here. The salvation in verse 19 is related to Paul's word in verse 20 about not being put to shame in anything and about Christ being magnified in his body, whether through life or through death. Hence, in verse 20 we have the definition of the salvation mentioned in verse 19. Therefore,