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Ver. 6. ὅπως: belongs to μνείαν σου Tovovpevos... Υ. 5 is, as it were, in brackets. It would be more usual to have ἵνα here—xotvwvia: the reference is to identity of faith ; the fellowship among the saints, cf. Phil. i. 5. The word is used of a collection of money in Rom. xv. 20, 2 Cor, vill. 4. 1X.) τα ο: Πες, xili, 16.—é€v: see 2 Cor. i. 6, Col. i. 29. π-ἐπιγνώσει: the force of this word is seen in Phil. 1. 9.--παντὸς ἀγαθοῦ: cf. Rom. xii. 2, xvi. 19, Col. i. 9.—év fp. eis Xp.: it is not only a question of men who benefit by “every good thing,”’ but also of the relationship to Christ ; cf. Col. iii. 23.
Ver. 7. ἔσχον: the aorist expresses forcibly the moment of joy which St. Paul experienced when he heard this good news about Philemon.—ra σπλάγχνα: regarded as the seat of the επιοβοης.- ἀναπέπανται: the compound “ expresses a temporary relief, the simple παύεσθαι expresses a final cessation” (Lightfoot)—aSeA@pé: the place of the word here makes it emphatic, cf. Gal. vi. 18, Phil. iv. 1.
Ver. 8. Διό: i.e., because of the good that he has heard concerning Philemon ; he must keep up his reputation.—é wr t- τάσσειν: “toenjoin,”’ or “command” ; the word is used “rather of commanding which attaches to a definite office and relates to permanent obligations under the office, than of special injunctions for particular occasions ” (Vincent).—7 ὃ ἀνῆκον: the primary meaning of the verb is that of “having arrived δι, or “reached’’; and, ultimately, that of fulfil- ling a moral obligation. The word occurs
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Ver. 9. τοιοῦτος ὧν ὡς: “τοι- οὔῦτος can be defined only by a following adjective, or by οἷος, ὅς, ὅσος, or ὥστε with the infinitive; never by @s”’ (Vin cent). It seems, therefore, best to take τοιοῦτος ὧν as referring to. . . μᾶλλον παρακλῶ, which is taken up again in the next verse; ὡς Παῦλος. .. ᾿Ιησοῦ must be regarded as though in brackets; τοιοῦτος ὧν would then mean ‘‘one who beseeches’”’. --πρεσβύτης: this can scarcely be in reference to age, for which γέρων would be more likely to have been used ; besides, in Acts vii. 58, at the martyrdom of St. Stephen, the term νεανίας is applied to St. Paul. Lightfoot in his interesting note on this verse, says: “ There is rea- son for thinking that in the common dialect πρεσβύτης may have been written indifferently for πρεσβευτής in St. Paul’s time; and if so, the form here may be due, not to some comparatively late scribe, but to the original autograph itself or to an immediate transcript’’; and he gives a number of instances of the form πρεσβύτης being used for πρεσ- βευτής. If, as seems very likely, we should translate the word “ambassador ”’ here, then we have the striking parallel in the contemporary epistle to the Ephesians, vi. 20, ὑπὲρ οὗ πρεσβεύω ἐν ἁλύσει. Deissmann (Licht vom Osten, Ῥ- 273) points out that both the verb πρεσβεύω, and the substantive πρεσ- βευτής, were used in the Greek Orient for expressing the title of the Legatus of the emperor. Accepting the meaning “ambassador”’’ here, the significance of