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Philemon 1:9
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7 For we1 have great joy and consolation in your love, because the4 hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you, brother.  

The Plea for Onesimus

8 Therefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to command you what is fitting,
9 yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ—
10 I appeal to you for my son aOnesimus, whom I have begotten while in my chains,  
11 who once was unprofitable to you, but now is profitable to you and to me.
12 I am sending him1 back. You therefore receive him, that is, my own2 heart,  
13 whom I wished to keep with me, that on your behalf he might minister to me in my chains for the gospel.
14 But without your consent I wanted to do nothing, athat your good deed might not be by compulsion, as it were, but voluntary.  
15 For perhaps he departed for a while for this purpose, that you might receive him forever,
16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave—a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the aflesh and in the Lord.  

Philemon’s Obedience Encouraged

17 If then you count me as a partner, receive him as you would me.
18 But if he has wronged you or owes anything, put that on my account.
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Philemon 1:9

Paul the aged (Paulov presbuthv). Paul is called neaniav (a young man) at the stoning of Stephen (Acts 7:58). He was perhaps a bit under sixty now. Hippocrates calls a man presbuthv from 49 to 56 and gerwn after that. The papyri use presbuthv for old man as in Luke 1:18 of Zacharias and in Titus 2:2. But in Ephesians 6:20 Paul says presbeuw en alusei (I am an ambassador in a chain). Hence Lightfoot holds that here presbuthv = presbeuthv because of common confusion by the scribes between u and eu. In the LXX four times the two words are used interchangeably. There is some confusion also in the papyri and the inscriptions. Undoubtedly ambassador (presbeuthv) is possible here as in Ephesians 6:20 (presbeuw) though there is no real reason why Paul should not term himself properly "Paul the aged."




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Philemon 1:9:

Ephesians 6:20
2 Timothy 1:8
Titus 2:2
Philemon 1:1
Philemon 1:21

 

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