Philemon 1:12

Philemon 1:12

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,

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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I have sent back (anepemya). Epistolary aorist. As it will look when Onesimus arrives.

In his own person (auton). "Himself," intensive pronoun with on (whom).

My very heart (ta ema splagxna). As in verse Philemon 1:7. He almost loves Onesimus as his own son.

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