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Filipino Cebuano Bible

Filipos 2:26

26 kay siya gimingaw kaninyong tanan, ug naguol pag-ayo tungod kay kamo nakadungog man nga siya nagmasakit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Epaphroditus;   Minister, Christian;   Zeal, Religious;   Thompson Chain Reference - Companionship;   Desire;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Epaphroditus;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Philippians, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Letter Form and Function;   Philippians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Epaphroditus;   Philippians, Epistle to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Grief ;   Philippians Epistle to the;   Sickness;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Epaphroditus;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heavy;   Philippians, the Epistle to;   Sick;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he longed: Philippians 1:3, Philippians 1:8, Philippians 4:1, 2 Samuel 13:39, Romans 1:11, 2 Corinthians 9:14

full: Job 9:27, Psalms 69:20, Proverbs 12:25, Isaiah 61:3, Matthew 11:28, Matthew 26:37, Romans 9:2, 1 Peter 1:6

ye had: 2 Samuel 24:17, John 11:35, John 11:36, Acts 21:13, Romans 12:15, 1 Corinthians 12:26, Galatians 6:2, Ephesians 3:13

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:20 - I will 2 Kings 13:14 - fallen sick Psalms 41:3 - strengthen Philippians 2:28 - ye see Philippians 4:18 - Epaphroditus 1 Thessalonians 2:8 - affectionately 2 Timothy 1:4 - desiring 2 Timothy 4:20 - sick

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he longed after you,.... This verse and Philippians 2:28 contain the reasons of the apostle's sending him; and the first is, because he had a very vehement and longing desire after all of them; to see them, as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions add, and as it is read in the Alexandrian and Claromontane copies, and in others: it was not the city of Philippi he longed to see, which might be his native place, nor his natural relations and family, but the church there; and not the officers of it only, the bishops and deacons, but all the members of it, rich and poor, high and low, strong and weak believers:

and was full of heaviness: almost pressed down, quite disheartened and dispirited, ready to sink and die away, not so much with his own disorder and illness, as with sorrow on account of the church at Philippi:

because that ye had heard that he had been sick: he understood that the news of his sickness had reached them, and he knew how distressing it would be to them, that it would cut them to the heart, and press them heavily, fearing they should never see his face, nor hear his voice more. We have here an instance of that mutual love, tender affection and sympathy; which were in the first churches, and what subsisted between ministers and people; see how they loved one another! but, alas! this first love is left.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For he longed after you all - He was desirous to see you all, and to relieve your anxiety in regard to his safety.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 26. Ye had heard that he had been sick. — "In this passage," says Dr. Paley, "no intimation is given that the recovery of Epaphroditus was miraculous, it is plainly spoken of as a natural event. This instance, together with that in the Second Epistle to Timothy, Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick, affords a proof that the power of performing cures, and, by parity of reason, of working other miracles, was a power which only visited the apostles occasionally, and did not at all depend upon their own will. Paul undoubtedly would have healed Epaphroditus if he could; nor would he have left Trophimus at Miletum sick, had the power of working cures awaited his disposal. Had this epistle been a forgery, forgery on this occasion would not have spared a miracle; much less would it have introduced St. Paul professing the utmost anxiety for the safety of his friend, yet acknowledging himself unable to help him, which he does almost expressly in the case of Trophimus, Him have I left sick; and virtually in the passage before us, in which he felicitates himself on the recovery of Epaphroditus in terms which almost exclude the supposition of any supernatural means being used to effect it. This is a reverse which nothing but truth would have imposed." Horae Paulinae, page 234.


 
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