Filemone 1:7

7 Perciocchè noi abbiamo grande allegrezza e consolazione della tua carità; poichè le viscere dei santi siano state per te ricreate, fratello.

Filemone 1:7 Meaning and Commentary

Philemon 1:7

For we have great joy and consolation in thy love
In the expressions and acts of it to the poor saints; for which reason the apostle gives thanks for it before; and it is a pleasure and comfort to an ingenuous mind, though it is not in his power to do good to the poor saints himself, to see that others have both abilities, and a heart to relieve them:

because the bowels of the saints are, refreshed by thee, brother;
meaning, not only that their bellies were filled with food, for the phrase is used in ( Philemon 1:20 ) where that cannot be intended; but their hearts were filled with gladness, the load upon their spirits, the pressures upon their minds were removed, and they had an inward pleasure in their souls, and rest, refreshment, and comfort, through the liberal communications of Philemon to them; who did what he did cheerfully, that so it did their souls good, as well as their bodies; and in doing which, he acted the part of a brother in Christ.

Filemone 1:7 In-Context

5 udendo la tua carità, e la fede che tu hai inverso il Signore Gesù, e inverso tutti i santi;

6 acciocchè la comunione della tua fede sia efficace, col far riconoscere tutto il bene che è in voi, inverso Cristo Gesù.

7 Perciocchè noi abbiamo grande allegrezza e consolazione della tua carità; poichè le viscere dei santi siano state per te ricreate, fratello.

8 PERCIÒ, benchè io abbia molta libertà in Cristo, di comandarti ciò che è del dovere;

9 pur nondimeno, più tosto ti prego per carità così come sono, Paolo, vecchio, ed al presente ancora prigione di Gesù Cristo;