Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents

4:21-22 Greetings. The exhortation to greet every saint reinforces the personal nature of Paul's communication and shows that the truths of the letter were to be lived out by real people in the real world. Caesar's household could refer not only to the "royal family" but to anyone connected with the emperor's service, including soldiers, slaves, or freedmen. It is likely that some of the latter group had responded positively to Paul's message; there is no evidence that the emperor's actual family were believers at this point. The fact that some within Caesar's circles had believed would have had particular resonance in Roman Philippi.