Matthew Poole and continuators on Philippians 2:23

23 Him therefore I hope to send presently , so soon as I shall see how it will go with me .

Seeing the matter was thus, he thought not of any other to employ in the service of their Faith, but hoped, i. e. in the Lord Jesus, as v. 19. in a short time after his present Writing, to send this excellent, humble, and approved young Man, who would naturally care for their concerns, v. 20.

Even without any delay (though as yet to accompany Epaphroditus, he could not spare him who was so usefull to him in his bonds, to take care for things necessary to the propagation of the Gospel, in the ample City of Rome) from the hour he should come to a certainty, what would be the issue of his present imprisonment, which if it should end in his being offered up, he had satisfied them before, as it would be for his own advantage, ch. 1.21. so by the Providence of God, no disservice to their Faith, v. 17, 18. from which with ready submission to God's will, whatever occurred, it seems he had a greater inclination to conceive a good hope of freedom