{"query": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5daed6c3700e", "title": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written from Rome at the same time as the epistles to the Colossians and Ephesians, and was sent also by Onesimus. It was addressed to Philemon and the members of his family. It was written for th"}, {"id": "card_src_word_epistle_to_philemon", "title": "epistle to philemon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "epistle to philemon: (noun) a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to Philemon asking Philemon to forgive the slave for escaping — syn: Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Philemon, Phi"}, {"id": "card_src_word_epistle_of_paul_the_apostle_to_philemon", "title": "epistle of paul the apostle to philemon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "epistle of paul the apostle to philemon: (noun) a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to Philemon asking Philemon to forgive the slave for escaping — syn: Epistle to Philemon, Phi"}, {"id": "card_n_bb6a0264e07f", "title": "Easton: Onesimus", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Useful, a slave who, after robbing his master Philemon (q.v.) at Colosse, fled to Rome, where he was converted by the apostle Paul, who sent him back to his master with the epistle which bears his nam"}, {"id": "card_src_word_philemon", "title": "philemon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "philemon: (noun) (Greek mythology) a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety · (noun) (N"}, {"id": "card_c_m_09b6ff79c7fd", "title": "Easton: Mandrakes shares a section with Easton: Philemon, Epistle to", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Mandrakes shares a section with Easton: Philemon, Epistle to."}, {"id": "card_c_m_9632271afbde", "title": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to cites Colossians", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to cites Colossians."}, {"id": "card_c_m_b29e8fd6bcee", "title": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to cites Ephesians", "shelf": "connections", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Easton: Philemon, Epistle to cites Ephesians."}, {"id": "card_n_68206af8ef18", "title": "Easton: Philemon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An inhabitant of Colosse, and apparently a person of some note among the citizens (Col. 4:9; Philemon 1:2). He was brought to a knowledge of the gospel through the instrumentality of Paul (19), and he"}, {"id": "card_n_c11c336c7bf0", "title": "Easton: Galatians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question. Its Pauline origin is universally acknowledged. Occasion of. The churches of Galatia were founded by Paul himself (Acts 16:6; Gal. 1:8; 4:13,"}, {"id": "card_n_73971d3aa279", "title": "Easton: Peter, First Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle is addressed to “the strangers scattered abroad”, i.e., to the Jews of the Dispersion (the Diaspora). Its object is to confirm its readers in the doctrines they had been already taught. P"}, {"id": "card_n_a29a0c47b9e4", "title": "Easton: Timothy, First Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Paul in this epistle speaks of himself as having left Ephesus for Macedonia (1:3), and hence not Laodicea, as mentioned in the subscription; but probably Philippi, or some other city in that region, w"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_philemon_1_8", "title": "Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:8", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Philemon 1:8 — We have here,\nI. The main business of the epistle, which was to plead with Philemon on behalf of Onesimus, that he would receive him and be reconciled to him. Many arguments Paul urg"}, {"id": "card_n_b85b00d05fcb", "title": "Easton: Corinthians, Second Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Shortly after writing his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul left Ephesus, where intense excitement had been aroused against him, the evidence of his great success, and proceeded to Macedonia. Purs"}, {"id": "card_n_88c46b589551", "title": "Easton: Romans, Epistle to the", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "This epistle was probably written at Corinth. Phoebe (Rom. 16:1) of Cenchrea conveyed it to Rome, and Gaius of Corinth entertained the apostle at the time of his writing it (16:23; 1 Cor. 1:14), and E"}, {"id": "card_n_19c3ff099c6f", "title": "Easton: Epaphras", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Lovely, spoken of by Paul (Col. 1:7; 4:12) as “his dear fellow-servant,” and “a faithful minister of Christ.” He was thus evidently with him at Rome when he wrote to the Colossians. He was a distingui"}, {"id": "card_n_ba272ce3a5e6", "title": "Easton: Jude, Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The author was “Judas, the brother of James” the Less (Jude 1:1), called also Lebbaeus (Matt. 10:3) and Thaddaeus (Mark 3:18). The genuineness of this epistle was early questioned, and doubts regardin"}, {"id": "card_n_7327b80a124c", "title": "Easton: Titus, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was probably written about the same time as the first epistle to Timothy, with which it has many affinities. “Both letters were addressed to persons left by the writer to preside in their respective c"}, {"id": "card_n_d71a58fce1e5", "title": "Easton: Peter, Second Epistle of", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The question of the authenticity of this epistle has been much discussed, but the weight of evidence is wholly in favour of its claim to be the production of the apostle whose name it bears. It appear"}, {"id": "card_n_4c70970fb72d", "title": "Easton: Ephesians, Epistle to", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was written by Paul at Rome about the same time as that to the Colossians, which in many points it resembles. Contents of. The Epistle to the Colossians is mainly polemical, designed to refute certain"}]}