grace.

羅馬書 16:20,24
賜平安的神快要將撒旦踐踏在你們腳下。願我主耶穌基督的恩常和你們同在！…

your spirit.

提摩太後書 4:22
願主與你的靈同在！願恩惠常與你們同在！

腓利門書 1:1
為基督耶穌被囚的保羅同兄弟提摩太，寫信給我們所親愛的同工腓利門，

,

2

歌羅西書 4:9,17
我又打發一位親愛忠心的兄弟阿尼西慕同去，他也是你們那裡的人。他們要把這裡一切的事都告訴你們。…

) who had been converted by the ministry of Paul, (ver.

19,) probably during his abode at Ephesus, (Ac.

19:10) Onesimus, a slave of Philemon, having, as it is generally thought, been guilty of some dishonesty, fled from his master, and came to Rome, where the apostle was at that time under confinement the first time, as appears by his expectation of being shortly released, (ver.

22,) about A. D.

62. Having by some means attended the preaching of the apostle, 'in his own hired house,' (Ac.

28:16,23) it pleased God to bless it to his conversion. After he had given satisfactory evidence of a real change, and manifested an excellent and amiable disposition, which greatly endeared him to Paul, he was sent back to his master by the apostle, who wrote this epistle to reconcile Philemon to his once unfaithful servant.