Philemon 15-16

15For this perhaps is why ahe was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, 16 bno longer as a bondservant
Or slave; twice in this verse (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)
but more than a bondservant, as da beloved brotherespecially to me, but how much more to you, eboth in the flesh and in the Lord.

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