Philemon 1:2
and to sister Apphia, and Archippus our fellow-soldier, and the church in your house.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house:
In Context
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Romans 16:5and the church in their house. Salute Epaenetus my beloved, who is the first fruit of Asia unto Christ.
Philippians 2:25But I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother and fellow-laborer and fellow-soldier, and apostle and the minister of my necessity;
Colossians 4:17And say to Archippus; Take heed to the ministry which you received in the Lord, that you may fill it.
Matthew Henry on Philemon 1:2-8
Completed by Jeremiah Smith . This epistle to Philemon is placed the last of those with the name of Paul to them, perhaps because the shortest, and of an argument peculiar and different from all the others; yet such as the Spirit of God, who indited it, saw would, in its kind, be very instructive and useful in the churches. The occasion of it was this:—Philemon, one of note and probably a minister in the church of Colosse, a city of Phrygia, had a servant named Onesimus, who, having purloined his goods, ran away… Read the whole commentary →