PAUL PLEADS FOR ONESIMUS (PHILEM 1-25) – AN ENDURING EXAMPLE FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN

Abstract

Paul’s plea for Onesimus is contained in his letter to Philemon. This letter is the shortest of all the extant letters of St. Paul, being made up of only 335 words and 25 verses in the original Greek. Moreover, when further compared with those other letters written by Paul to communities and groups of communities, this letter is seen to be closely related to the ordinary private and personal letters of the time when it was written, in a way that those others are not.