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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"I have sent him therefore the more diligently." What means "more diligently"? It is, without procrastination, without delay, with much speed, having bidden him lay all aside, and to go to you, that he might be freed from heaviness; for we rejoice not on hearing of the health of those we love, so much as when we see them, and chiefly so when this happens contrary to hope, as it was in the case of Epaphroditus. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
That is, he sent immediately, so that you, having seen him, might be freed from sorrow over his illness, or rather that you might rejoice. "And I was less sorrowful." How then can I be less sorrowful? In this way: if you rejoice, I too will likewise rejoice. He did not say "without sorrow" but "less sorrowful," showing by this that his soul was never entirely free from sorrow. "Who," he says, "is weak, and I am not weak?" (2 Cor. 11:29).
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