“For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick.”
For he has been longing for you all and has been distressed because you heard that he was ill — pothos (longing, yearning, same word used of Paul in 1:8) shows Epaphroditus's deep affection for the Philippians. 'Distressed' (ademonō, troubled, anxious) because of their anxiety about his illness reveals his concern for their concern: love spirals reciprocally. His illness separated him from them; the separation pains him more than the illness itself. This is koinōnia under duress.
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