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Not now (οὐκέτι)
Rev., more correctly, no longer. The negative adverb οὐκέτι states the fact absolutely, not as it may be conceived by Philemon (μηκέτι) However Philemon may regard Onesimus, as a fact he is now no longer as a slave.
Above (ὑπέρ)
Rev., more than. More than a slave - a whole man.
Especially (μάλιστα)
Connect with beloved. Especially to me as compared with other Christians.
How much more (πόσῳ μᾶλλον)
Beloved most to Paul, how much more than most to Philemon, since he belonged to him in a double sense, as a slave and as a Christian brother: in the flesh and in the Lord. “In the flesh Paul had the brother for a slave: in the Lord he had the slave for a brother” (Meyer).