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- Philippians
- Chapter 4
- Verse 14
Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
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Gill's Exposition
Notwithstanding ye have well done,.... This he says lest they should think he slighted their kindness, and lest they should be discouraged from doing any such thing of this kind another time, either…
Barnes' Notes
Notwithstanding, ye have well done - Though he had learned the grace of contentment, and though he knew that Christ could enable him to do all things, it was well for them to show sympathy for his…
Adam Clarke
Ye have well done - Though I have learned all these important lessons, and am never miserable in want, yet ye have done well in sending me relief in the time of affliction.
In these verses we have the thankful grateful acknowledgment which the apostle makes of the kindness of the Philippians in sending him a present for his support, now that he was a prisoner at Rome.…
Cambridge Bible
Notwithstanding "Again the Apostle's nervous anxiety to clear himself interposes" (Lightfoot). We would rather call it loving care than nervous anxiety. He is tender over their feelings, as he thinks…
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