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- abbreviation Philemon
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- proper noun Abbreviation of
Philemon .
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Epaphras in Phm 23, as his "fellow prisoner," but here (Col 1: 7) "fellow servant," Meyer in Alford, conjectures that Paul's friends voluntarily shared his imprisonment by turns, Aristarchus being his fellow prisoner when he wrote to the Colossians, Epaphras when he wrote to Philemon.
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Again, in Phm 22, he confidently anticipates his release, which contrasts with the more depressed anticipations of this Epistle.
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As he is here spoken of as Paul's "fellow prisoner," but in Phm 24 as Paul's "fellow laborer"; and vice versa,
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Christ's work of restoration would have been precluded, where He "changes this body of humiliation that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself" (Phm 3: 21).
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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So the Apostolic Constitutions, [8.46], name him as the first bishop of Laodicea: supposed to be the son of Philemon (Phm 2). faithful and true witness -- As "the Amen" expresses the unchangeable truth of His promises; so "the faithful the true witness," the truth of
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The latter parts of Phm 19, 21, imply that he did not expect
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And in both Paul appears as a prisoner (Phm 9; Col 4: 18).
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Yet Phm 19 here implies that Philemon was his convert.
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As to Timothy's "youth," it may be spoken of comparatively young compared with Paul, now "the aged" (Phm 9), and with some of the Ephesian elders, senior to Timothy their overseer.
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Titus, mine own son -- Greek, "my genuine child" (1Ti 1: 2), that is, converted by my instrumentality (1Co 4: 17; Phm 10). after the common faith -- a genuine son in respect to (in virtue of) the faith common to all the people of God, comprising in a common brotherhood Gentiles as well as Jews, therefore embracing Titus a
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