 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk, and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. Though I might be much bold in Christ, to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and nqw also a prisoner of Jesus... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, 9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thce, brother. 8 Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ, to enjoin thee that which is convenient : 9 Yet, for love's sake, I ratlier beseech tbce, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...of the weight and dignity of his mission ; nor does he suffer Philemon for a moment to forget it: " I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient." He is careful also to recall, though obliquely, to Philemon's memory, the sacred obligation under which... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 424 pages
...saints are refreshed by ^ & avat:jEcyarrat thee, brother. (TOD, 8 Wherefore, though I 8 Ato tSoA/ljyv ev might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, manner, that his own benevolent disposition would lead him to pardon Onesimus, although he had greatly... | |
 | William Paley - 1812 - 586 pages
...of the weight and dignity of his mission ; nor does he suffer Philemon for a moment to forget it : " I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient." He is careful also to recall, though obliquely, to Philemon's memory, the sacred obligation under which... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 530 pages
...epistle very insinuating, where there is an intermixture of many powerful arguments. verse 8, I). " Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet for love-sake I rather beseech thee being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ,... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1815 - 446 pages
...of great address, as well as of strong affections, and master of a persuasion not easily resisted. " Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee what is convenient, (or fit,) yet for love's sal^l rather beseech ; (being such an one as Paul the... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pages
...more than one occasion, pressing upon the disciples. With Philemon he thus intercedes for Onesimus: " Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, yet for /ore's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 642 pages
...necessity, even that which he judged convenient ; and verifies his authority in his Epistle to Philemoni; " I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient :" and this he actually did to the Corinthian church, commanding that " all things should be done decently,... | |
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Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. 
