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Philemon was a wealthy Christian, possibly a bishop [3] of the church that met in his home (Philemon 1:1–2) in Colossae. This letter is now generally regarded as one of the undisputed works of Paul. It is the shortest of Paul's extant letters, consisting of only 335 words in the Greek text. [4]
Philemon was a wealthy Christian and a minister (possibly a bishop). [ 6 ] The Menaia of 22 November speak of Philemon as a holy apostle who, in company with Apphia, Archippus, and Onesimus , had been martyred at Colossae during the first general persecution in the reign of Nero . [ 5 ]
Philemon (Ancient Greek: Φιλήμων; c. 362 BC – c. 262 BC) was an Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy.He was born either at Soli in Cilicia or at Syracuse in Sicily but moved to Athens some time before 330 BC, when he is known to have been producing plays.
In the New Testament, the Greek text of the codex is considered a representative of the Alexandrian text-type. It has been found to agree very closely with the text of Bodmer 𝔓 75 in the Gospels of Luke and John. 𝔓 75 has been dated to the beginning of the 3rd century, and hence is at least 100 years older than the Codex Vaticanus itself.
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Textual variants in the Epistle to Philemon are the subject of the study called textual criticism of the New Testament. Textual variants in manuscripts arise when a copyist makes deliberate or inadvertent alterations to a text that is being reproduced. An abbreviated list of textual variants in this particular book is given in this article below.
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The manuscript contains the complete text of 22 books of the Peshitta New Testament, [2] on 176 leaves (23 by 14 cm) written in two columns per page, in 40-44 lines per page. Hebrews is placed after Philemon. [1] [3] The manuscript is written in a small and elegant Edessene hand. [1]