en_tn_condensed/php/02/30.md

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# he came near death
"he almost died." Paul speaks of dying as if death were a place that people could go to. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
# so that he could bring to completion what was lacking in your service to me
The meanings of the abstract nouns "completion" and "service" can be expressed as verbs. Alternate translation: "so that he could complete what you could not do in serving me"