Philippians 2:28
Therefore I sent him the more speedily: that seeing him again, you may rejoice, and I may be without sorrow.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Festinantius ergo misi illum, ut viso eo iterum gaudeatis, et ego sine tristitia sim.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- σπουδαιοτέρως οὖν ἔπεμψα αὐτὸν ἵνα ἰδόντες αὐτὸν πάλιν χαρῆτε κἀγὼ ἀλυπότερος ὦ.
Haydock's commentary
And I may be without sorrow; without the great concern and trouble that I am now in for you. (Witham)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians, Philippians 2:19-21
Ver. 28 . “I have sent him therefore the more diligently.” What means “more diligently”? It is, without procrastination, without delay, with much speed, having bidden him lay all aside, and to go to you, that he might be freed from heaviness; for we rejoice not on hearing of the health of those we love, so much as when we see them, and chiefly so when this happens contrary to hope, as it was in the case of Epaphroditus.