r x0tvavoy, One with whom thou haſt Communion + a Partner in the ſame Grace of the Goſpel, and in the ſame trials and affliftions of the Goſpel. / Do not only forgive him, but kindly entertain him, who is my Friend, as thou wouldft do my ſelf.
18 If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought t, put that on my account #@.
e Tf he hath any way been unfaithful, if he hath taken any thing from thee, or be in thy debt, « Charge that upon me, let me be accountable to thee for it,
19 1 Paul have written it with my own hand, [ will repay It w, albeit I do not ſay unto thee, how thou oweſt unto me even thy own ſelf be- lides x.
w Thou haſt it here under my hand, I take upon me to fatis- fie thee Oreſtm#s his Debr, yet x I could tell thee, that thou oweft me more than it can be, even thy own felt, God having made uſe of me as an Inſtrument to convert, and turn thee unto God. Such Perſons are great Debtors to their Spiritual Fathers, Ro, I * 27. x ;
20 Yea, brother y, let me have joy of thee in the Lord z : refreſh my bowels in the Lord 4.
» The Particle yet is uſed in Swearing, Affirming, Perſuading, Intreating ; the latter ſeemerh here moſt proper, as much as of all love, Brother. + It will rejoice my Heart, to ſee thee Chari- table and Ohedient to my Monitions, let me have a Spiritual Joy, from thy ſatisfattion of me in what I deſire. 4 Either 0zeſt- m8, whom verſe 12, he had called his Bowelsz Or, my inward Man, |
ſay c.
6T bave not written this without a confidence that thou in this thing wilt do what I defire of thee, c But I write it out of my Affe- Aion to poor Onefimas, and deſire to help him not doubting of thy readineſs to do the thing.
truſt that * through your prayers I ſhall be given to you d. EE
d This would incline one to think that this Epiſtle was written before the ſecond Epiftle to Timothy, for there, Chap. 4. 6,7, $. he ſeems to have other apprehienſions :; yet it is plain, Timorhy was , with Paul when he wrote this, which he was not when that Second Epiſtle was written, as appears from Chap. 4. 9, 21. Here —_ a
ould again Come to them, he writeth to PhzJemon to prepare him a lodg- INg., | 23 There ſalute thee Epaphras my fellow-priſoner in Chriſt Jeſus e,
e We read of this Epaphras, Col. 1. 7. where he is called Pau]'s Fellow-Seruant, and a Faithful Miniſter of Chrift, he was with Paul at Rome, Col, 4.12, but there is no mention of him as a Priſoner, but now he was a Fetlow-7rijoner with Paul,either in the ſame place, or upon the ſame account,
labourers f.
f All Miniſters of the Goſpel, they are alſo-named Colo/. 4. 10, 14, they were all at this time at Rome with Paul, fee Acts 12, 12, 25, and 15. 37, 39. and 19. 29, and 20, 4. and 27. 2. @ Tim, . 10,
25 The grace of our Lord Jeſus Chriſt be with your ſpirit. Amen g. |
g See the Notes on Gal. 6.18, See alſo Rom. 16. 24. 1 Cor. 16, 23. Phil, 4.27. 2 Theſſ. 2. 18. with your Spirit, is the ſame with
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Chriſt in all its gracious Emanations. We have his meaning fully, 2 Cor. 13. 14. The Grace of our Lord Feſus Chriſt, and the Love of God, and the Communisn of the Holy Ghoſt, be with you all, Amen, is a Participle of Praying and Affirming, by which he declareth his earneſt deſire it might be ſo, and alſo his Faith that it ſhould be ſo. Nor doth he pray for Philemon alone, (though the Epiſtle chiefly
concerned him) but for all thoſe who at Cosſs had with him obtain ed like precipus Faith,
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COME few Greek Copies not having the Name of the Apoſtle P AUL prefixed to this EPISLLE, though moſt of them have, hath made many doubt concerning the Writer of it, as others, eſpectally Hereticks, of its Authority.
The Conje&ures of theſe who aſcribe it to Barnabas, Luke, or Clemens, ©-c. ſeem groundleſs ; ſince the Chara&er the Ho-
ly Ghgſt gives of its Pen- Man, and his ſtate, in Chap. 10. 34- and Chap. 13. 19, 23. is not agreeable to any of them.
This is moſt certain, That the Apoſtle Paul did write ſuch an Chriſt then; that it was abuſed by Men of corrupt Minds, ftimony A it 13.2, Pet, 2. 15, 16. That thzs Epiſtle ſhould be | OL. II,
Epiſthe ; that it was well known to the diſperſed Churches of as it is at this Day, fince the Spirit gives us undeniable Te- it, (when it is ſo like the reſt of his Writings, when it is
you, By the Grace of our Lord Jeſus Chrift, he means the Spirit of.
Chap. I.
21 * Having confidence in thy obedience b, I wrote * 2 Cor.7. unto thee, knowing that thou wilt alſo do more than 1 16.
22 But withal prepare me alſo a lodging, For * ahoogyta, QC 2. 24,
* 2 Cor.1- Il,
24 Marcus, Ariſtarchus, * Demas, Lucas my fellow *91,4,:;;
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Chap. I.