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hearing of your love, and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all the saints;
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A Confusing Sentence, A Clear Meaning
Commentators note the verse's grammar is unusual, seemingly applying both faith and love to Jesus and the saints. However, they overwhelmingly agree this is a literary device (a chiasmus). The clear intended meaning, paralleled in Colossians 1:4, is that Philemon has 'faith toward the Lord Jesus' and 'love toward all the saints.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Hearing of thy love and faith. Paul may have heard this either from Onesimus, who, after his conversion, would be disposed to state all th…
Hearing (ακουων). Through Epaphras (Colossians 1:7,8; 4:12), possibly from Onesimus also.
And towards a…
19th Century
Anglican
Thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints.—This description of a faith directed no…
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Baptist
Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God, making mention of you always in my prayers, hearing of …
In both pagan and Christian letters of the first centuries of the Christian era, the salutation was often followed by an expression of thanksgiving…
16th Century
Protestant
Hearing of your love and faith. This praise, which he bestows on Philemon, includes briefly the whole perfection of a Christian. It consis…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Hearing of your love and faith Those two spring from the free favor and love of God, and are the pure gifts of his g…
Faith in Christ, and love for Him, should unite saints more closely than any outward relationship can unite the people of the world. Paul, in his p…
13th Century
Catholic
1. The occasion for this epistle is as follows. At Colossae, an important Christian had a servant who secretly fled to Rome, where he was ba…
