Filemone 1:12

12 Io te l’ho rimandato, lui, ch’è quanto dire, le viscere mie.

Filemone 1:12 Meaning and Commentary

Philemon 1:12

Whom I have sent again
From Rome to Colosse, or to Philemon, wherever he was, along with this epistle:

thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels;
meaning his son, who, in a spiritual sense, came out of his bowels, to whom he stood in the relation of a spiritual father; so the Syriac version renders it, as my son, so receive him; see ( Genesis 15:4 ) ( 2 Samuel 16:11 ) and for whom he had a most strong affection, and tender regard; his bowels yearned for him, and he suggests by this expression, that should he reject him, it would give him the utmost pain and uneasiness; and he should be obliged to cry out as the Prophet Jeremy did, "my bowels, my bowels, I am pained at the very heart"; ( Jeremiah 4:19 ) wherefore he entreats him to receive him again into his house and family, into his service, and into his heart and affections, where the apostle had received him.

Filemone 1:12 In-Context

10 ti prego per il mio figliuolo che ho generato nelle mie catene,

11 per Onesimo che altra volta ti fu disutile, ma che ora è utile a te ed a me.

12 Io te l’ho rimandato, lui, ch’è quanto dire, le viscere mie.

13 Avrei voluto tenerlo presso di me, affinché in vece tua mi servisse nelle catene che porto a motivo del Vangelo;

14 ma, senza il tuo parere, non ho voluto far nulla, affinché il tuo beneficio non fosse come forzato, ma volontario.