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There's another man in 2 Timothy chapter

4, verse 20, Trophimus, who was left sick at

Miletum by the apostle Paul. Trophimus

could not travel with the apostle Paul. In

Colossians 4:1, Paul himself brought a

doctor with him, the beloved physician

Luke. In Philippians chapter 2, verse 25, the

apostle Paul again mentions a friend,

Epaphroditus, and Paul said in verses 25

through 30, “Yet I supposed it necessary to

send to you Epaphroditus” — Now, listen to

what he calls him — “my brother, and

companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but

your messenger, and he that ministered to

my wants. For he longed after you all, and
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was full of heaviness, because that ye had

heard that he had been sick. For indeed
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