And it is at least equally probable that the word "praetorium" simply means the barrack of that detachment of Roman soldiers from which Paul's gaolers were taken in turn.

In such labours St.Paul in all probability spent two years (61-63), during which occurred the divorce of Octavia, the marriage with Poppaea, the death of Burrus, the disgrace of Seneca, and the many subsequent infamies of Nero.
[Footnote 43: Phil.i.

12.] [Footnote 44: [Greek: en olo to praitorio].] [Footnote 45: Phil.iv.

22.] It is out of such materials that some early Christian forger thought it edifying to compose the work which is supposed to contain the correspondence of Seneca and St.Paul.The undoubted spuriousness of that work is now universally admitted, and indeed the forgery is too clumsy to be even worth reading.

But it is worth while inquiring whether in the circumstances of the time there is even a bare possibility that Seneca should ever have been among the readers or the auditors of Paul.
And the answer is, There is absolutely no such probability.