For the hope of Israel: see Acts 23:6, Acts 24:21. This hope is either,
1. Of the resurrection, as in the forementioned places; and Acts 26:6,7; or:
2. The Messiah; Christ is the hope of Israel, so they pretended for many ages, and him now Paul preached. I am bound with this chain; for though he had his liberty to go abroad, yet he was chained with his right hand to the soldier's left hand who went with him, and could not possibly be loosened unwittingly from him.