Commentary on Philemon

Jerome (342–420)

Commentaries on the Epistle to Philemon by Jerome

Latin Text from public domain Migne Editors, Patrologiae Cursus Completus.

Translated into English using ChatGPT.

Table of Contents

Prologue

1:1-3

1:4-6

1:7

1:8-9

1:10-13

1:14

1:15-16

1:17

1:18

1:19

1:20

1:21

1:22

1:23-24

1:25

Prologue

Those who do not wish to receive the letter written to Philemon amongst the epistles of Paul, say that the Apostle did not always speak, nor did he say everything, while Christ was speaking in him, because human weakness could not bear the guidance of the Holy Spirit uninterruptedly; and also, because the necessities of this body were not always fulfilled in the presence of the Lord, such as arranging a meal, taking food, becoming hungry, being satisfied, digesting what had been eaten, satisfying what had been exhausted. I pass over the other things which they object to sharply and deliberately, to the extent that they affirm there was some time in which Paul would not have dared to say "I live, but not I, Christ lives in me" (Galatians 2:20), and that "Do you seek an experiment of Christ who speaks in me?" (2 Corinthians 13:3) What sort of experiment of Christ is it, they ask, to hear "Bring the cloak which I left at…

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