John Trapp on Colossians 4:11

Verſe 11. Theſe only are my fellow-workers] S. Paul complains of fickle and falſe friends, that forſook him in his diſtreſſe, as Demas, 2 Tim. 4 16.2 Tim. 4.0 that like Jobs friends proved miſerable comforters, and as the brooks of Tema, which in a moiſture ſwell, in a drought fail: Or as the river Novanus in Lombardy, that at every Mid-ſummer Solstice ſw[illegible: 1 letter]lle[illegible: 1 letter]h and runneth over the banks, but in mid-winter is clean dry. Howbeit Marcus, Aristarchus, Oneſimus, Oneſiphorus, and ſome few others ſtuck to him. A great mercy: Optimum ſolatium, ſodalitium.