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Phm_1:23 f. Salutations from the same persons, Col_4:10-14.
ὁ συναιχμάλωτός μου ] See on Col_4:10. Here it further has expressly the specifically Christian character.[82] Comp. δέσμιος ἐν κυρίῳ , Eph_4:1.
The Jesus Justus mentioned at Col_4:11 does not here join in the greeting. The reason for this cannot be ascertained. It is possible that this man was absent just at the moment of Paul’s writing the brief letter to Philemon. According to Wieseler, p. 417, he was not among those in the abode of the apostle under surveillance (in Rome).
[82] Yet ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ might also be conceived as connected with ἀσπάζεται (Bleek). Comp. Php_4:21; Rom_16:22; 1Co_16:19. There is, however, no reason for separating it from the nearest word, with which even Chrysostom in his day expressly connected it.