Colossians 4:8

Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose,.... That is, to relate to them his affairs both temporal and spiritual; and also,

that he might know your estate. The Arabic version renders it, "that…

All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you - See these verses explained in the notes at Eph 6:21-22.

That he might know your estate - Instead of ἱνα γνῳ τα περι ὑμων, that He may know Your affairs, ABD*FG, many others, with the Ethiopic, Itala, Theodoret, and Damascenus, read ἱνα γνωτε τα περι…

In the close of this epistle the apostle does several of his friends the honour to leave their names upon record, with some testimony of his respect, which will be spoken of wherever the gospel comes,…

I have sent Greek, "I sent." But the English is true to our idiom. He means that the letter and Tychicus are sent together; the aorist, the "epistolary past" of Greek, must be rendered as a perfect in…