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Philemon 1:16

The Pulpit Commentary on Philemon 1:16

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

Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved. So great a difference had his Christian calling and profession made to him and to others. Both in the flesh and in the Lord. A hysteron proteron.

The apostle is pleading on behalf of Onesimus this new bond of Christian relationship, which was in the Lord, that it should bring about a renewed fullness of personal relation. In the flesh, because "in the Lord."

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