intimate communion with God at that very time, and that on that dying bed he made one of the most remarkable prophecies of his entire life and that he was speaking as the especially chosen mouthpiece of God, even while “sick of the sickness whereof he died.” Paul left Trophies at Miletus sick (2 Tim. 4:20). Paul seemed to need his companionship, and Paul was a mighty man of prayer, but his prayer had not availed as yet to raise Trophimus up. In Philippians 2:27 we read that Epaphroditus “was sick