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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.
Referenced in Thom Gunn's poem "Philemon and Baucis" in The Man with Night Sweats. Barbey d'Aurevilly describes a couple as Philemon and Baucis in his short story "Happiness in Crime" from the collection Les Diaboliques. The narrator in Max Frisch's 1964 novel Gantenbein refers to the main characters as Baucis and Philemon for a whole chapter.
The obscure progressive band "Anna Koka 5 Ägg Jag Är Värd I Huset", hailing from the same area as PA&tD, has recently been the subject of speculations as after their 2022 reunion they have frequently played Philemon covers live and hinted that the band members and brothers Mats and Rolf Svensson are the same age as the members of Philemon ...
Onesimus, a slave who had escaped from his master Philemon, was returning with this epistle wherein Paul asked Philemon to receive him as a "brother beloved" (Philemon 1:9–17). Philemon was a wealthy Christian, possibly a bishop [3] of the church that met in his home (Philemon 1:1–2) in Colossae.
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 ...
Philémon is a series in the Franco-Belgian comics style created by French artist Fred and published by Dargaud.The series began serial publication in the French magazine Pilote on July 22, 1965, [1] before it eventually became an album series.
Philemon, a 1975 off-Broadway musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt Philemon Arthur and the Dung , a music group from Scania, Sweden, consisting of two members, whose real names are unknown Philemon, a character from the Persona video game series