<p>1:19 <i>For I know that this shall result in my salvation, through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ</i>- The machinations of Paul's enemies, seeking to lengthen or harshen his prison term, would, he believed, turn out in his salvation from prison in Rome- if the Philippians prayed about it. &quot;Salvation&quot; is rendered better by Moffatt: &quot;The outcome of all this, I know, will be my release&quot;. The Greek here is almost identical to Job 13:16 LXX: &quot;Though he slay me... even that is to me an omen of salvation&rdquo;. The context is of Job speaking of the good conscience he had maintained with God; similarly, Paul's good conscience made him fearless of approaching death, as he also made clear when on trial for his life (Acts 23:1; 24:16).</p><p>I have noted above that Paul felt the fellowship of the Spirit with them because the same Spirit in him was in them- that of the Lord. The operation of the Spirit would result in his salvation from prison. But whether Paul was released at this point (see on :1) is unclear. &quot;I know that...&quot; was written by Paul in faith, although he did not know how exactly the Spirit was going to work in this case. &quot;Supply&quot; is only elsewhere used in Eph. 4:16, concerning how the body functions through each member supplying something towards its total function. But what they supplied was what the Lord supplied; a related word is used of the Lord's supply of the Spirit to the church (Gal. 3:5). The Spirit is supplied through the functioning of the Lord Jesus through thee ligaments of His body. See on Zech. 4:14.</p><p>There seems reason to believe that the gift of the Spirit is a way of describing answered prayer. The giving of &quot;good things to them that ask&quot; in prayer is the same as the giving (gift) of the Holy Spirit (Mt. 7:11 cp. Lk. 11:13). Phil. 1:19 parallels &quot;Your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ&quot;. Similarly, 1 Jn. 3:24 says that we are given the Spirit as a result of our obedience to the commands; verse 22 says that obedience to those commands leads to our prayers being answered. Thus our confidence is due to having our prayers heard (1 Jn. 5:14) and also due to having the Spirit act in our lives (1 Jn. 3:21,24; 4:13), seeing that prayer is answered by the Spirit's work.</p>