Matthew Poole and continuators on Philippians 1:14

14 And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds , are much more bold, to speak the word without fear .

And here again, contrary to the expectation of those persecutors, who designed to make havock of the Church, his innocent carriage and constancy in bearing the Cross, had an influence upon the greater part of the Brethren (not according to the flesh, Rom. 9.3. but) in the service of Christ.

Pastours▪ and Teachers, who had been timorous at the first, were greatly imboldned to shake off carnal fear, and to profess and preach Christ Crucified, or the Cross of Christ, 1 Cor. 1.18, 23. Which is the power of God to Salvation, Rom. 1.16. more confidently than ever, as he and Barnabas had done elsewhere, Act. 13.46. and as Ioseph of Arimathea, and Nic[illegible: 1 letter]demus, who were but secret Disciples before Christ's Sufferings, upon his Death owned him openly for their Lord, Mat. 27.57. with Ioh. 9.39.