2 Timothy 4:20

Ἔραστος ἔμεινεν : The name Erastus is too common to make probable the identification of this companion of St. Paul's and the οἰκονόμος, treasurer, of Corinth, who joins in the apostle's salutation in Romans 16:23. It is not antecedently likely that a city official could travel about as a missionary. On the other hand, it is probable that this Erastus is the same as the companion of Timothy mentioned in Acts 19:22. It is to be observed that St. Paul here resumes from 2 Timothy 4:12 his explanation of the absence from Rome of members of his company whose presence with their master at this crisis would have been natural. It is possible that Erastus and Trophimus were with St. Paul when he was arrested the second time, and that they remained in his company as far as Miletus and Corinth respectively.

Τρόφιμον : See Acts 20:4; Acts 21:29, and the art. in Hastings' D. B.

ἀσθενοῦντα : Paley's remark is never out of date, “Forgery, upon such an occasion, would not have spared a miracle” (Horae Paul. Philippians 2). Chrys. notes, “The apostles could not do everything, or they did not dispense miraculous gifts upon all occasions, lest more should be ascribed to them than was right”.