Philippians 2:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Him therefore I hope to send presently; 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 Philippians 2:19, in a short time after his present writing, to send this excellent, humble, and approved young man, who would naturally care for their concerns, Philippians 2:20. So soon as I shall see how it will go with me; even without any delay, (though as yet, to accompany Epaphroditus, he could not spare him, who was so useful 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, Philippians 1:21, so, by the providence of God, no disservice to their faith, Philippians 2:17,18; 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.