1
Threptus and Eutychus, servants of the assembly, carried the letter to Philippi.
2
Paulos received it while bound in prison because of the affair concerning Stratonice, the wife of Apollophanes.
3
When the letter was placed in his hands, the distress of his chains became secondary to his grief over the teaching that had entered Qorintos.
4
He cried that it would be better to depart and be with the Master than to remain in the flesh and hear such corruption spreading among those he had taught.
5
Yet he understood that the same suffering that held his body in bonds had also become the setting in which he must defend what he had proclaimed.
6
Therefore, in great distress, Paulos wrote a reply and entrusted it to be carried back to the assembly.