Philemon 1:23

There salute thee Epaphras,.... Who was a Colossian, and minister of the church at Colosse, and so might be well known to Philemon, who seems to have been of the same place and church; see Col 1:7 his…

There salute thee Epaphras - The same persons who are here mentioned as greeting Philemon, are mentioned in the close of the Epistle to the Colossians - furnishing a high degree of evidence that…

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner - Epaphras was a Colossian, as we learn from Col 4:12 : Epaphras, who is one of you. But there is no account there of his being in prison, though the not mentioning of it…

We have here,

I. The main business of the epistle, which was to plead with Philemon on behalf of Onesimus, that he would receive him and be reconciled to him. Many arguments Paul urges for this…

Salutations

23. There salute thee Cp. Col 4:10.

Epaphras Cp. Col 1:7, and note.

my fellowprisoner Cp. Col 4:10, and note. This passage is in favour of explaining the term there also to mean "a visitor…