And many of the brethren in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
This shows that they were of good courage even before, and spoke with boldness, but much more now. If others then, says he, are of good courage through my bonds, much more am I; if I am the cause of confidence to others, much more to myself. And most of the brethren in the Lord. As it was a great thing to say, My bonds gave confidence to them, he therefore adds beforehand, in the Lord. Do you see how, even when he sees himself constrained to speak great things, he departs not from moderation? Are more abundantly bold, he says, to speak the word without fear; the words more abundantly show that they had already begun.
