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Having this confidence, I know that I will remain, yes, and remain with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 25–26. And having this confidence. In effect Saint Paul escaped this first danger, for after having remained two years at Rome, he was taken from his confinement. Calmet.—I know (or am persuaded, as in the Greek) that I shall remain … by my coming to you again. This is one argument that this epistle was written during his first imprisonment at Rome: yet this is not agreed upon by the interpreters, and especially whether he ever returned again to Philippi. Witham.
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