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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 ]
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.
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
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.
The mythology of the ethnic Vietnamese people (the Việt,) has been transferred through oral traditions and in writing. The story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ has been cited as the common creation myth of the Vietnamese people. The story details how two progenitors, the man known as the Lạc Long Quân and the woman known as the Âu Cơ ...
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 whole Bible was published in 1934 and is published by the Bible Society in Vietnam as the "Old Version" and uses an archaic, traditional vocabulary of Vietnamese. In 1966, the Vietnamese Bible Society was established. The Bible societies distributed 53,170 Bible examples and 120,170 New Testament examples in Vietnamese within the country in ...
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