Philippians 2:26

“Since he longed after you all, and was sore troubled, because ye had heard that he was sick”

“He longed after you all”: “To year for” (Jackson p. 58). “And was sore troubled”: “Distressed” (Mon). “Depressed, full of sorrow” (Jackson p. 58). “Interestingly, this distress seems to have been caused by Epaphroditus' anxiety for the Philippian's anxiety for him upon their learning that he was sick” (Hawthorne p. 117). “Because ye had heard that he was sick”: Lenski notes, “What worried the sick man was the fact that the people who had sent him, probably at considerable expense to themselves, to do so much for Paul, heard that all their good plans had failed, had only put. further burden on Paul instead of relieving his other burdens” (p. 821-822). “Epaphroditus was depressed because the folks in Philippi were anxious about him, and Paul was concerned about their worry over this courageous Christian man. What. wonderful circle of concern! Would that more saints were as sympathetic to the feelings of their brethren” (Jackson p. 58).