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CAESAR HOUSEHOLD

Paul extended greetings from “those of Caesar’s household” (Phil. 4:22). This may indicate that Paul wrote from Rome while awaiting trial before Caesar, and that conversions occurred among Caesar’s family. However, the phrase had several meanings. As early as Augustus, the empire could be referred to as the emperor’s household since he was the paterfamilias of the whole realm. Tacitus referred to the incorporation of Egypt into the domus Caesaris (Hist. 1.11). Most often, it referred to the vast imperial bureacracy consisting of personal servants, freedmen, and slaves (Philo Flacc. 35).

Scott Nash






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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