There salute you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;
There salute you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;
Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;
Epaphras, my brother-prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you his love;
There salute thee Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus;
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,
Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner - Epaphras was a Colossian, as we learn from Colossians 4:12 : Epaphras, who is one of you. But there is no account there of his being in prison, though the not mentioning of it does not necessarily imply that he was not. Some time or other he had suffered imprisonment for the truth of the Gospel; and on that account St. Paul might, in a general way, call him his fellow prisoner.
There salute thee Epaphras - The same persons who are here mentioned as greeting Philemon, are mentioned in the close of the Epistle to the Colossians - furnishing a high degree of evidence that Philemon resided at Colosse. Epaphras was a member of the church there; the notes at Colossians 4:12.
My fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus - In the cause of Christ; Notes, Plm 1:1. The circumstance of his being a prisoner is not mentioned in the parallel place in the Epistle to the Colossians, but nothing is more probable.