Philemon 1:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;

Ver. 23. Epaphras my fellowprisoner] Clapped up, belike, for visiting and countenancing St Paul, to whom he was sent by the Colossians with relief, while he was prisoner at Rome. The ecclesiastical history telleth us of one Phileas a martyr, who going to execution, seemed as one deaf at the persuasions and blind at the tears of his friends, moving him to spare himself. And when one Philoramus defending him said, Quomode potest terrenis lachrymis flecti, cuius oculi caelestem gloriam contuentur? How can he be moved with earthly tears, who hath his eyes full fed with heavenly glory? he also was taken in, and both presently beheaded.

Philemon 1:23

23 There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;