For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
For, х huper (G5228)] - 'On behalf of which.'
An ambassador in bonds. A paradox. Ambassadors were inviolable by the law of nations, and could not, without outrage to sacred right, be put in chains. Yet Christ's 'ambassador is in a chain!' х en (G1722) halusei (G254), singular.] The Romans used to bind a prisoner to a soldier by a single chain, in a kind of half-free custody. So Acts 28:16; Acts 28:20. "Bonds" (plural) is used when the prisoner's hands or feet were bound together (Acts 26:29: cf. Acts 12:6). An undesigned accuracy, marking truth.
Therein - in making known the Gospel mystery.
As I ought to speak - qualifying the "boldly" in Ephesians 6:19.