And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:
Ver. 2. To establish you] Who haply are somewhat unsettled by the troubles that befell me among you. But as young trees shaken, root the better, so should you. Capito in an epistle to the brethren at Basil, writeth thus, Pauciores vobiscum perimuntur, quod ita Domino visum est ut stabiliantur seu lenibns pluviis, ac sementis mollioribus, plantulae in arbores maximas proditurae.