1. Therefore, when we could no longer endure it, we resolved to be left behind alone in Athens.
2. Also we sent Timotiyos, acheinu and fellow po'el of Hashem in the Besuras HaGeulah of Moshiach. We sent Timotiyos in order to give you chozek (strength) and to speak divrei chizzuk to you on behalf of our [orthodox Jewish] Emunah [of the true Dat haYehudit].
3. This was for the tachlis that no one be unsettled because of ES TZARAH. For you yourselves have da'as that we have a divine calendar date with ES TZARAH.
4. For, hinei, when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were going to suffer redifah, just as also it came to pass, of which you have da'as.
5. For this reason, when I could no longer endure it, I sent in order to know your emunah, lest somehow [Hasatan Samma'el] the Tempter [HaMenasseh] had ensnared you by nissayon and our labor should be for nothing.