Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.
The verse belongs to the letter to the Philippians, written while in prison in Rome to the Christians at Philippi. Philippi was an important town of Macedonia on the great highway from east to west, named after Philip II of Macedonia and a Roman colony at the time. There suffering was endured but a devoted church was found that sent means again and again, so this letter is more like a letter from the heart than any other.
The verse expresses the hope to send Timothy presently, as soon as the outcome of the writer's own case and imprisonment and circumstances is seen. The sending is so that there may be good comfort when their state is known.
Timothy is held up as a leader of the same character commended in the writer himself, one who naturally cares for the state of the flock, seeks not his own but the things of Jesus Christ, and serves in the gospel as a son with a father. He is gentle as a nurse cherishing her children and willing to impart not the gospel only but his own soul, an example for overseers to feed the church of God rather than lord over it.
The verse belongs to the letter to the Philippians, written while in prison in Rome to the Christians at Philippi. Philippi was an important town of Macedonia on the great highway from east to west, named after Philip II of Macedonia and a Roman colony at the time. There suffering was endured but a devoted church was found that sent means again and again, so this letter is more like a letter from the heart than any other.
The verse expresses the hope to send Timothy presently, as soon as the outcome of the writer's own case and imprisonment and circumstances is seen. The sending is so that there may be good comfort when their state is known.
Timothy is held up as a leader of the same character commended in the writer himself, one who naturally cares for the state of the flock, seeks not his own but the things of Jesus Christ, and serves in the gospel as a son with a father. He is gentle as a nurse cherishing her children and willing to impart not the gospel only but his own soul, an example for overseers to feed the church of God rather than lord over it.