With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.
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Gill's Exposition
With Onesimus,.... Who had been Philemon's servant, ran away from him, and was met with and converted by the Apostle Paul, of whom he says many things in his epistle to his master. According to the…
Barnes' Notes
With Onesimus - Who had been formerly a servant of Philemon, an inhabitant of Colossae; see the notes at Phm 1:10. Onesimus had probably been recently converted; and Paul felt toward him the warm…
Adam Clarke
With Onesimus - who is one of you - Onesimus was a native of some part of Phrygia, if not of Colosse itself; and being lately converted to the Christian faith by the instrumentality of the apostle, he…
In the close of this epistle the apostle does several of his friends the honour to leave their names upon record, with some testimony of his respect, which will be spoken of wherever the gospel comes,…
Cambridge Bible
Onesimus On his name and story see below, on Phm 1:10, and Introd. to the Ep. to Philemon, ch. 3.
a faithful and beloved brother Lit., and better, the, &c. See above on Col 4:7. This rescued slave is…