Robertson Word Pictures - Philemon 1:8 - 1:8

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Robertson Word Pictures - Philemon 1:8 - 1:8


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Though I have (echōn). Concessive participle (present active).

That which is befitting (to anēkon). Neuter singular accusative of the articular participle (present active) of anēkō, to come up to requirements and so to be befitting. For idea in anēkō, see note on Col 3:18; Eph 5:4. This idiom is in later writers.

I rather beseech (māllon parakalō). Rather than command (epitassō) which he has a perfect right to do.