Philemon
New Testament · Pauline Letters · 1 chapter
A short, personal letter asking Philemon to welcome back his runaway slave Onesimus as a brother.
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Context
- Genre
- Personal letter
- Authorship
- Traditionally attributed to Paul
- Date
- c. 55–62 CE
- Audience
- Philemon, the owner of Onesimus.
- Setting
- Prison setting
- Original language
- Greek
- In the original
- ἀδελφόςadelphos — brother
- Related texts
- Colossians 4 · Onesimus and ArchippusPhilippians 1 · Paul in prison