Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Philippians 2:20

"For I have no man likeminded, who will care truly for your state." — Philippians 2:20 (ASV)

Paul’s glowing testimony about Timothy was not to introduce his young associate, for he was already well known at Philippi . It did serve, however, to avert possible disappointment that Paul himself could not come at once, and he indicated that he had the fullest confidence in his younger associate. Paul’s phrase “no one else like him” compares Timothy with Paul’s other available associates. In the matter of “a genuine interest in your welfare,” no one that Paul might conceivably have sent had the same interest in the Philippians as did Timothy. How appropriate that two of the pastoral letters were later written to him as he exercised his pastoral concerns in another city.