For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s. (Philippians 2:20)
This verse, at first sight, appears startling. St. Paul, when he wrote to Colosse, had Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, Jesus Justus, and Epaphras, all with him. Does he mean here to condemn the fellow-prisoner and companion [Timothy, see Hebrews 13:23], who had partaken in all the perils of his voyage, and who seems to have stood before so high in his esteem? Or does he intend, when Timothy was about to visit Philippi, to teach him on his arrival his superiority to Luke and Mark, and Aristarchus, all probably his superiors in age, and apparently not less constant in their love to the apostle in this imprisonment?
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Author: T. R. Birks
Keywords: Paul in prison, Paul's imprisonment, Paul's inprisonment, Journeys of Paul, Paul's journeys, Paul's travels, Timothy in prison, Paul and Timothy, Timothy and Paul
Bible reference(s): Philippians 2:20
Source: Horae Apostolicae (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1850).
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