Filemon 1:23

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Salam kepadamu dari Epafras, temanku sepenjara karena Kristus Yesus,

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Salam kepadamu dari Epafras, temanku sepenjara karena Kristus Yesus,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka Epafras, temanku di dalam penjara karena Kristus Yesus, berkirim salam kepadamu,

Contextual Overview

⁸ Wherfore, though I myght be much bolde in Christe, to inioyne thee that which is conuenient: ⁹ Yet for loues sake, I rather beseche thee, beyng such a one as Paul the aged, & nowe also a prisoner of Iesus Christe. ¹⁰ I beseche thee for my sonne Onesimus, whom I haue begotten in my bondes: ¹¹ Which in tyme passed, was to thee vnprofitable, but nowe profitable to thee and to me. ¹² Whom I haue sent agayne: Thou therefore receaue hym, that is, myne owne bowels, ¹³ Whom I woulde haue retayned with me, that in thy steade he myght haue ministred vnto me in the bondes of the Gospell: ¹⁴ But without thy mynde woulde I do nothyng, that thy benefite shoulde not be as it were of necessitie, but willingly. ¹⁵ For happyly he therfore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receaue hym for euer: ¹⁶ Not nowe as a seruaunt, but aboue a seruaunt, a brother beloued, specially to me: but howe much more vnto thee, both in the fleshe, and in the Lorde? ¹⁷ If thou count me therfore a felowe, receaue hym as my selfe.

Bible Verse Review
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Epaphras: Colossians 1:7, Colossians 4:12

my fellowprisoner: Romans 16:7, Colossians 4:10

Reciprocal: 1 Corinthians 16:20 - the brethren 2 Corinthians 13:13 - General Philippians 4:21 - The

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Colossians 1:7 his name is omitted in the Ethiopic version:

my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus; this good man, and minister of Christ, might have been sent by the Colossians, as Epaphroditus was by the Philippians, to the apostle at Rome, to pay him a visit, and comfort and assist him under his afflictions; and staying and preaching the Gospel there, was committed to prison, or was laid in bonds, as the apostle was, and upon the same account; namely, for the sake of Christ, and his Gospel. For by this time Nero began to persecute the Christians, which he did in the better and more moderate part of his reign; for among several things for which he is commended by the historian b, this is one;

""Afficti suppliciis Christiani, genus hominum superstitionis novae ac maleficae"; the Christians were punished, a sort of men of a new and bad religion:''

and Epaphras being at Rome, when this persecution broke out, was taken up and put in prison, as were also Aristarchus, Colossians 4:10 and Timothy, Hebrews 13:23.

b Suetonius in Vita Neronis, c. 16.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Philemon resided at Colosse. Epaphras was a member of the church there; the notes at Colossians 4:12.

My fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus - In the cause of Christ; Notes, Philemon 1:1. The circumstance of his being a prisoner is not mentioned in the parallel place in the Epistle to the Colossians, but nothing is more probable.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Philemon 1:23. Epaphras, my fellow prisoner — Epaphras was a Colossian, as we learn from Colossians 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 does not necessarily imply that he was not. Some time or other he had suffered imprisonment for the truth of the Gospel; and on that account St. Paul might, in a general way, call him his fellow prisoner.