Philemon 1 5 because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus.Thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints.This description of a faith directed not only to the Lord Jesus, but to all the saints, has perplexed commentators, and called out various explanations.One is that faith here as in Romans 3 3 Galatians 5 2.Lord Jesus Christ.Another, noting the distinction in the original between the two prepositions here the former pros signifying direction towards, and the latter eis actual contact with, its object explains the phrase as signifying the faith which has as its object the Lord Jesus Christ, but which shows itself practically towards all saints.But this, even if the word hast will bear this gloss, seems too artificial for such a Letter as this.The comparison with the contemporaneous Letter to the Colossians where we read, your faith in the Lord Jesus, and your love toward all the saints Colossians 1 4 seems to clear up the matter.We have here an equivalent phrase, in which, however by what the grammarians called chiasmus, the extremes and means correspond to each other.The idea which runs through the Letter is Philemons love to the saints.In writing of that love St.Paul cannot refrain from 4 referring it to its true origin the faith towards the Lord Jesus Christ.Hence the broken phrase.KDB6Or2uDM/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Free Lord Your Holy Download' title='Free Lord Your Holy Download' />The sense seems therefore to be that which in some MSS.Lord Jesus, and thy love to all the saints.Verse 5.
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