Filemone 1:4

4 Io rendo grazie all’Iddio mio, facendo sempre di te memoria nelle mie orazioni;

Filemone 1:4 Meaning and Commentary

Philemon 1:4

I thank my God
Meaning on account, of Philemon, for the grace bestowed upon him, thereafter mentioned; (See Gill on Romans 1:8) making other saints, ( Romans 1:9 ) ( Ephesians 1:16 ) ( Philippians 1:3 Philippians 1:4 ) ( Colossians 1:3 ) ( 1 Thessalonians 1:2 ) , the apostle was a man much in prayer, frequent at the throne of grace; and he prayed not for himself only, but for all the saints, for all the churches and ministers of the Gospel; whom he not only bore upon his mind and heart, but made mention of them, it may be by name; however, he remembered them, and put up petitions, with thanksgivings, for them; and so he did for Philemon; and which he takes notice of with the same view as before: the word, "always", is so placed in the original text, as to be put either to his thanks to God, or his prayers, and may be true of both; the Syriac and Arabic versions join it to the former; and the Vulgate Latin and the Ethiopic versions place it to the latter.

Filemone 1:4 In-Context

2 ed alla diletta Appia, e ad Archippo, nostro compagno di milizia, ed alla chiesa che è in casa tua;
3 grazia a voi e pace, da Dio Padre nostro, e dal Signor Gesù Cristo.
4 Io rendo grazie all’Iddio mio, facendo sempre di te memoria nelle mie orazioni;
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.
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