The Pulpit Commentary on Philemon 1:17

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

If thou count me therefore a partner; if thou holdest me for a friend—by our friendship entreat this. The strongest form of entreaty possible to be used. κοινωνία in Acts 2:42 refers to the Holy Communion, and in 1 Corinthians 10:16-21 partakers of it are plainly called by implication κοινωνοὶ—partakers, or, as we should say, "communicants."

But here the sense is apparently as above; literally, a partner.

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