Ver. 22. Gua... 3.¢., at the same time that he does what he is going to do for Onesimus. éroipaleé por: Light- foot’s remark that “‘ there is a gentle com- pulsion in this mention of a personal visit to Colossae,” does not seem justified in view of the stress that St. Paul lays on Philemon’s action being wholly voluntary, see vv. ΙΟ, 14; it is more probable that this is merely an incidental mention of what had been planned some time before, namely another missionary journey to Asia Minor and Greece (see Phil. ii. 24), without any thqught of influencing Philemon’s action thereby.—feviay : only here andin Acts xxviii. 23, in the N.T.
νεῖ. 23. συναιχμάλωτος: lit. “ἐᾷ prisoner of war,’ * used metaphorically like συνστρατιώτης, see note on ver. 2; ef. Rom. xvi. 7, where the word is us:d in reference to Andronicus and Junius.
Ver. 24. Μάρκος: t.e., John Mark, cf. Acts xii. 25, xv. 37, Phil. iv. 10; he
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and Aristarchus were Jewish-Christians 2 Tim. iv. 22.--ὑμῶν: the reference is (Col. iv. 11). -ιοῶδημᾶς, Λουκᾶς: αεπ- both to those addressed by name in the tile Christians (cf. Acts xvi. 10, xx. 5,6, opening of the Epistle, as well as to the xxi. 15, xxvii. 2); the former name isacon- members of the local Church, see verse traction of Δημήτριος (Col. iv.14;2Tim. 2. This final verse is a reiteration of
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