Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.
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Gill's Exposition
For he longed after you,.... This verse and Phi 2:28 contain the reasons of the apostle's sending him; and the first is, because he had a very vehement and longing desire after all of them; to see…
Barnes' Notes
Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus - Epaphroditus is nowhere else mentioned but in this Epistle; see Phi 4:18. All that is known of him, therefore, is what is mentioned here. He…
Adam Clarke
Epaphroditus, my brother, etc - Here is a very high character of this minister of Christ; he was,
1. A brother - one of the Christian family; a thorough convert to God, without which he could not have…
Paul takes particular notice of two good ministers; for though he was himself a great apostle, and laboured more abundantly than they all, yet he took all occasions to speak with respect of those who…
Cambridge Bible
Yet I supposed Better, But I have counted, or, I count. "Yet" is too strong a word of contrast or exception.
"I have counted":the Greek verb is an aorist, but an "epistolary" aorist, in which the…
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