hope to send, as soon as ever I know how it will go with me. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. Yet I thought it necessary to send also you Epaphroditus, my brother and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my need. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because ye had heard that he was sick. He was indeed sick nigh unto death; But God had compassion on him; and not on him only, but on me likewise,