PHILEMON

1Herbert M. Carson, The Epistle of Paul to the Colossians and Philemon. “Tyndale New Testament Commentaries” (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1960), pp. 12-13.

2See Introduction to Colossians, BBC.

3C. F. D. Moule, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Colossians and to Philemon, “The Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary” (Cambridge: University Press, 1957), p. 22.

4See Carson on this question, op. cit., pp. 13-15.

5Moule, op. cit., pp. 15-16.

6Ibid., p. 16. See Moule on the reconstruction of the interpretation of Philemon as proposed by Goodspeed and Knox. See also Carson, op. cit., pp. 18-20.

7See comments there, BBC.