Philippians 2:27

For indeed he was ill, coming near to death, but Hashem had mercy on him not on him only but also on me, lest I should have agmat nefesh upon agmat nefesh.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

In Context

26I am sending him to you, because he was yearning after you all and was under zeiyar (extremely great) stress, because you heard that he was ill.

28Therefore, I am all the more eager to dispatch him to you, in order that when you have seen him again, you may have simcha and I may have less agmat nefesh.

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Cross References

Job 5:19He shall deliver thee in shesh tzoros; 1 yea, in shivah there shall no rah touch thee. 1

Psalms 30:10What profit is there in my dahm, 1 in my going down into the pit? 1 Shall the aphar (dust) praise Thee? 1 Shall it declare Thy emes? 1

Psalms 103:3Who forgiveth all thine avonim (iniquities); 1 Who healeth all thy diseases; 1

Ecclesiastes 9:1All this I took to my lev, explaining it all, that the tzaddikim, and the chachamim, and their works, are in the yad HaElohim; adam does not have da'as of whether it will be ahavah or sinah; all lies before him.

Isaiah 38:17Hinei, for shalom (benefit) did I have great bitterness; 1 for Thou hast in love to my nefesh 1 delivered it from the shachat (pit) of destruction; 1 for Thou hast cast 1 all my chatta'im behind Thy back. 1

Jeremiah 8:18When I would comfort myself against sorrow, 1 my lev is faint within me. 1

Matthew Henry on Philippians 2:20-30

Praise of Timothy and Epaphroditus. ( a. d. 62.) 19 But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. 20 For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. 21 For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. 22 But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel. 23 Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me. 24 But… Read the whole commentary →

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