Philippians 2:24

I trust For the Greek and its force see on Philippians 1:25, with the reference there to Philippians 1:6.

in the Lord See last note on Philippians 1:8.

shortly The word is of course elastic; it may mean a few weeks, or many months, as relations of comparison vary. What he is confident of is that Timothy's arrival would be followed at no great interval by his own. Bp Lightfoot compares 1 Corinthians 4:17; 1 Corinthians 4:19, for a curiously close parallel to the language of this passage, without any connexion of events.