<p>6:20- see on Mt. 26:35.</p><p><i>For which I am an ambassador in chains- </i>Again we sense Paul's resentment of his chains, his limitations; but he doesn't become demotivated, he seeks for ways to serve and witness all the same, and asks others to pray for him that he might be able to still be the Lord's ambassador despite them. This should be our example, as we all feel limited in some ways. There is an intended juxtaposition in ideas between being am ambassador, and yet being &quot;in chains&quot;. The Lord's Kingdom has ambassadors / diplomats who are &quot;in chains&quot;, who are not qualified at all in secular terms, indeed, who might appear to be precluded from such a role by the limitations of their position in life. But that is precisely the Lord's style and way of operation with us.</p><p><i>That in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak</i>- After his conversion, we sense from the record of the preaching that Paul was in his element. The record of his early preaching in Damascus and Jerusalem is recorded with the same rubric: he preached &quot;boldly&quot;, and on each occasion it seems he would have gone on, utterly oblivious of the fact he was heading for certain death, had not the other brethren &quot;taken&quot; him and quietly slipped him out of those cities (Acts 9:27). The same word translated &quot;boldly&quot; occurs later, years later, when Paul asks his converts to pray for him, that he would speak &quot;boldly, as I ought to speak&quot; (Eph. 6:20). He has already asked them this in v.19; he asks for the same thing twice. And he confessed his same problem to the Colossians (Col. 4:4). As he got older, he found it harder to be bold. First of all, in those heady days in Jerusalem and Damascus, it was the most natural thing in the world for him. But as time went by, it became harder for him to do this.</p>