Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I ask.
We have here, I. The main business of the epistle, which was to plead with Philemon on behalf of Onesimus, that he would receive him and be reconciled to him. Many arguments Paul urges for this purpose, Plm 1:8-21. The 1st Argument is taken from what was before noted, and is carried in the illative wherefore: "Seeing so much good is reported of thee and...
Commenting on Philemon 1:8-25
Having confidence in thy obedience,.... In his obedience of faith to Christ, and his Gospel; he having been made willing in the day of his power to serve him, as well as to be saved by him; and being constrained by his love, and the Spirit of Christ having wrought in him both to will and to do of his good pleasure: l wrote unto...
Verse 21. Having confidence in thy obedience. That you would comply with all my expressed desires. I wrote unto thee. "I have written to you;" to wit, in this epistle. Knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say. In all the respects which he had mentioned--in receiving Onesimus, and in his kind treatment of him.