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    New European Christadelphian Commentary: The Letter to Philemon
    New European Christadelphian Commentary: The Letter to Philemon
    New European Christadelphian Commentary: The Letter to Philemon
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    New European Christadelphian Commentary: The Letter to Philemon

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    The New European Commentary is based upon the New European Version of the Bible. It provides a verse by verse exposition of the entire New Testament. It is written by Duncan Heaster, a Christadelphian missionary, and is therefore from a Unitarian, non-Trinitarian perspective. This volume covers the letter / epistle of Paul to Philemon.
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    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateNov 29, 2016
    ISBN9781326878351
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      New European Christadelphian Commentary - Duncan Heaster

      New European Christadelphian Commentary: The Letter to Philemon

      New European Christadelphian Commentary: The Letter to Philemon

      Copyright © 2016 by Duncan Heaster.

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      First Printing: 2016

      ISBN 978-1-326-87835-1

      PHILEMON

      :1  Paul, a prisoner of Christ- Paul clearly resented his imprisonment, but he sees his captors as representing Christ; just as he asks slaves to consider their masters as Christ and live 'as unto Him' through secular experience. And Paul was no hypocrite; he saw his imprisonment as being served as unto Christ.

      And Timothy our brother- So Timothy was with Paul in Rome, possibly in prison with him. At the end of 2 Timothy, Paul begs Timothy to come to him, apparently before he dies. It could be argued that Paul was in fact released; for perhaps Timothy came to him, and now he writes to Philemon as if he expects to shortly be released and would come and visit him and settle any financial loss incurred by Onesimus (:19,22). Yet Paul does write in 2 Tim. 4 as if is at the end of his life, and the situation in prison has radically changed from the period at the end of Acts when he lived in his own rented accommodation within the prison. So perhaps during that period, Timothy came to him; and then on the second imprisonment, he asked for Timothy to come

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