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I will begin to repay thee by taking up my abode at thy house, as soon as I shall be e", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible — Public Domain", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_comm_adam_clarke_phm_1_16", "title": "Adam Clarke on Philemon 1:16", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Not now as a servant? - Do not receive him merely as thy slave, nor treat him according to that condition; but as a brother - as a genuine Christian, and particularly dear to me.\nBoth in the flesh and", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible — Public Domain", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"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", "authority_tier": "external_aligned", "source": "Matthew Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1897)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_comm_adam_clarke_phm_1_13", "title": "Adam Clarke on Philemon 1:13", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "That in thy stead he might have ministered unto me - As Philemon was one of Paul's converts, he became thereby his spiritual father, and had a right to his services when in need. This was a strong arg", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible — Public Domain", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_comm_john_gill_phm_1_19", "title": "John Gill on Philemon 1:19", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "I Paul have written it, with mine own hand,.... 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