The Pulpit Commentary on Philemon 1:13

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

I was wishing; I would fain have kept (Revised Version). The story tells itself if we read between the lines. What steadfast adherence to principle on the part of the apostle, when the help of Onesimus would have been so welcome to him in his weak health, and his position as a prisoner!

Philemon could hardly fail to think more favorably of Onesimus, when he saw how much importance the apostle attached to his services. In the bonds of the gospel. "Which I am enduring for the sake of the gospel" (see Philemon 1:9)—a variation of phrase from Philemon 1:9.

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