Letter 107 — The Sender: A Prisoner of Christ Jesus (Philemon)
Paul signs this letter as a prisoner, with a soldier at the other end of his chain. We meet Paul in custody, the household in Colossae, and the plain facts of Roman slavery, including what a runaway faced.
In this letter
- Paul's chains, from the stocks at Philippi to house arrest in Rome
- "Paul, the aged," and what the years had cost him
- Dating the letter to Rome around AD 60–62, and the case some make for Ephesus or Caesarea
- Philemon, Apphia, Archippus, and the church in the house at Colossae
- Roman slavery told plainly, and the danger waiting for a runaway
- Tychicus, Onesimus, and…
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