Philippians 2:23

Philippians 2:23. Him therefore I hope to send forth-with. The adverb here implies that the prospect appeared very immediate. There must have been a constant fluctuation of mind for the apostle in this imprisonment, for he had arrived at Rome (Acts 28:21) before any charge against him had been forwarded to the Jewish community, and yet the manner in which he had appealed was sufficient warrant for keeping him in custody in expectation of the charges which might be laid against him.

so soon as I shall see now it will go with me. Of course, if he could let Timothy go to them, it would be because he did not need his presence so much, and that would indicate that his cause was going on satisfactorily. Something of this is also intimated in the Greek verb, which has the sense of seeing both clearly and to some distance forward.