Philippians 2:23

presently Better, with R.V., forthwith, promptly, on ascertaining the issue of his trial.

so soon as I shall see He is sure, au fond, of the prospect of continued life (Philippians 1:25 and note); but this leaves him as much as ever obliged to wait the development of the Roman legal process. And it needs no very subtle psychology to see the possibility of the presence, in the same person, of certainties and uncertainties about the same event. Observe that Divine inspiration is far from conveying universal prescience.

how it will go with me A good paraphrase for the lit., "the things around me," my circumstances.