Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:
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Interpretation
It does not lower any one to condescend, and sometimes even to beseech, where, in strictness of right, we might command: the apostle argues from love, rather than authority, in behalf of one converted through his means; and this was Onesimus.
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This thought runs through Philemon 1:10-14.