I am sending him back to you, though in so doing I send part of myself.

It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for the Good News.

For perhaps it was for this reason he was parted from you for a time, that you might receive him back wholly and for ever yours;

If therefore you regard me as a comrade, receive him as if he were I myself.