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Philemon (/ f ɪ ˈ l iː m ən, f aɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Φιλήμων; Philḗmōn) was an early Christian in Asia Minor who was the recipient of a private letter from Paul of Tarsus which forms part of the Christian New Testament.
The Epistle to Philemon [a] is one of the books of the Christian New Testament. It is a prison letter, authored by Paul the Apostle ...
Colossae was located in Phrygia, in Asia Minor. [2] It was located 15 km (9.3 mi) southeast of Laodicea on the road through the Lycus Valley near the Lycus River at the foot of Mt. Cadmus, the highest mountain in Turkey's western Aegean Region, and between the cities Sardeis and Celaenae, and southeast of the ancient city of Hierapolis.
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.
During the persecution, Philemon dons the deacon's clothes so that, disguised as Apollonius, he could offer the required sacrifice to Jupiter in his stead, and the deacon avoid imprisonment and death. However, just before performing the public sacrifice, Philemon was recognized and declared himself a Christian, and refused to make the sacrifice ...
Baucis and Philemon are characters in the fifth act of Goethe's Faust II (1832). Gogol wrote an ironic and bittersweet reworking of the legend in his 1835 novella The Old World Landowners. Charles Gounod wrote his opéra comique Philémon et Baucis in 1860. The Lanchester Marionettes created a puppet show Philemon and Baucis in 1952 [4]
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Latin versions of the original Greek stories and sayings of the Desert Fathers, along with the earliest monastic rules coming out of the desert, guided the early monastic development in the Byzantine world and eventually in the western Christian world. [10]