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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.
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Onesimus, a slave that had departed 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.
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.
Philemon is a given name. In the Bible, the Epistle to Philemon is addressed to Saint Philemon. Others so named include: Philemon (poet) (ca. 362 BC–ca. 262 BC), Athenian poet and playwright of the New Comedy; Philemon the actor (died 305), a saint who was converted by Saint Appolonius; they were martyred together
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 ...