Philemon 1:24-25~Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellowlabourers.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.
Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.
Verse 24.
Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, and Lucas - see the ref at the Epistle to the Colossians; Colossians 4:10:
Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister's son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)
Colossians 4:14.
Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
Verse 25
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ …- Ref, 2 Timothy 4:22.
The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
The second [epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.]
The membership to the Epistle is of no authority, however for this situation is without a doubt remedy. Analyze the comments at the end of 1Corinthians, and Titus.
Comments On Philemon
Having now gone through with the work of this Epistle, it might be appropriate to duplicate, for examination with it, a standout amongst the most delightful examples of epistolary structure to be found in debase writing, an epistle of Pliny, composed on a comparable event, and having a solid similarity to this. As an issue of taste, it is of significance to demonstrate that the sacrosanct authors don't fall behind the most ideal examples of scholarly creation to be found in deadened compositions. The epistle of Pliny was coordinated to his companion Sabinianus, in sake of his manumitted slave who had affronted him, and who was thus thrown out of his favor.
Regardless of whether it ought to be confessed to be likely that he was, it would be vital, all together that this Epistle ought to be cited for subjection, that that reality ought to be made out with no ground of uncertainty, or the contention is useless. Unmistakably the Epistle, under any conditions, can be illustrated for subjection just so far as it is sure that Onesimus was a slave. However, that isn't sure. It can't be made to be sure. It ought not be underestimated. Both of the suppositions that he will undoubtedly benefit until the point when he was of age by a parent or guidance, or that he had deliberately bound himself to benefit for compensation, will meet all that is fundamentally inferred in the Epistle.
(2) there isn't the slightest proof that Paul utilized any power or even influence to prompt him to come back to his lord. It can't be demonstrated from the Epistle that he even prompted him to return. It is sure that he didn't constrain him to do it - for Paul had no capacity to do this, and no monitor or common officer went with Onesimus to anchor him on the off chance that he had gotten away. Each one of the conditions specified in the Epistle will be met by the supposition that Onesimus wanted to return, however that there were conditions which made him anxious that on the off chance that he did, he would not be benevolently received, and that, at his demand, Paul composed the Epistle to initiate Philemon to get him merciful. Nothing more can be demonstrated; nothing more is important to be accepted, with a specific end goal to a reasonable elucidation of the Epistle. Nothing is more normal than the supposition that when Onesimus was genuinely converted to Christ, he would want to come back to Philemon in the event that he had in any capacity treated him terribly. In any case, to make it appropriate to illustrate this Epistle to demonstrate that it is an obligation to restore a runaway slave to his lord, even on the supposition that Onesimus was a slave, it is important to demonstrate either that Paul exhorted him to return, or that he constrained him to do it without wanting to. Nobody questions that it is on the right track to help one who had gotten away from bondage, if, on any appropriate record, he should wish to return to his previous lord: in the event that he felt that he had wronged him, or in the event that he had a spouse and kids in the area, or on the off chance that he was fulfilled that he could be more cheerful in his administration than he could be somewhere else. To this point, and this exclusive, this Epistle goes.
...to be continued.
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