John Calvin Commentary Philippians 2:24

"but I trust in the Lord that I myself also shall come shortly." — Philippians 2:24 (ASV)

I trust that I myself. He adds this, too, so that they would not imagine that anything had happened to change his intention regarding the journey which he had previously mentioned. At the same time, he always speaks conditionally—If it shall please the Lord. For although he expected deliverance from the Lord, yet since there was, as we have observed, no express promise, this expectation was by no means settled, but was, as it were, suspended upon the secret purpose of God.