Talk:Philemon (biblical figure)

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I'll come back to this later - but this is a very problematic article. 1) Philemon of the letter to Philemon may not have been from Colossae. There is nothing in the letter to say he was. It is only from the letter to the Colossians that we gleem that, and the authenticity of that letter is debatable. There is all sorts of speculation, and anachronism here posing as facts. Fact is nothing is known of Philemon other than the sketch details of the letter, all of which are open to various interpretations. Roman Catholic tradition has a lot of hagiography, and it is fair for the article to comment on that, but it is generally accepted as being a very dubious historical source. There are also weasle words here 'It is not plain whether he was ordained or not.' Better saying, there is 'the leter gives us absolutely no reason to believe he was ordained' --Doc ask?  09:06, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

I know there's a great deal of debate as to Philemon and Onesimus's relationship. One school of thought has them as brothers (Callahan) and another as master and slave (an interpretation that goes back through generations). Personally, the line that says he's a brother in flesh and in the Lord, lends me to believe he's a brother, with the slave reference being a simile, but nothing more. I don't have Callahan's book with me, so instead I just wrote "alleged" so readers will know it's controversial. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.162.236.33 (talk) 00:42, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Requested move 19 May 2019

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The result of the move request was: moved (closed by non-admin page mover) DannyS712 (talk) 09:07, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Saint Philemon → Philemon (biblical figure) – consistency with other characters like Phoebe (biblical figure), Gaius (biblical figure) and per WP:NPOV, WP:COMMONNAME, WP:HONORIFIC, etc. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:22, 19 May 2019 (UTC) --Relisting. qedk (t 桜 c) 14:17, 28 May 2019 (UTC)


 * Support for internal consistency of the encyclopedia. bd2412  T 17:08, 9 June 2019 (UTC)


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