Charles Ellicott Commentary Philippians 4:16

"for even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my need." — Philippians 4:16 (ASV)

Even in Thessalonica.—Not only after he left Macedonia, but even before that time, when he had just passed from Philippi to Thessalonica. At Thessalonica, as at Corinth—both very rich and luxurious communities—he refused maintenance, and lived mainly by the labour of his own hands (1 Thessalonians 2:9; 2 Thessalonians 3:8). But it appears from this passage that even then he received once and again (that is, occasionally, “once or twice”) some aid from Philippi to supply his need—that is (as in a truly proper exercise of liberality), to supplement, and not to supersede, his own resources.