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/fəˈɫeɪmən/
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NOUN
- (Greek mythology) a simple countryman who offered hospitality to Zeus and Hermes when they came to earth without revealing their identities in order to test people's piety
- (New Testament) a Christian (probably living in Colossae) whose slave escaped and went to see Saint Paul
- a New Testament book containing an epistle from Saint Paul to Philemon asking Philemon to forgive the slave for escaping
How To Use Philemon In A Sentence
- According to Paul, Philemon was to receive Onesimus "_not_ as a servant;" -- according to Stuart, he was to receive him "_as a servant_! The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
- The picture makes me think of Philemon and Baucis. It arrived late in an aging civilization « Jahsonic
- Even Bartlett's use of Ovid's Philemon and Baucis story as a framing device to illustrate marital devotion feels like an self-conscious attempt to lend the story a high classical tone. Or You Could Kiss Me - review
- Tenors Hugo Vera (Philemon) and Scott Scully (Aret, his son) pushed their voices more than necessary in the small Emmett Robinson Theatre; Monica Yunus was a poignant Baucis and Shannon Kessler Dooley (Narcissa, the daughter-in-law), though indisposed, offered a good sense of the most florid of the vocal parts. Passion and Precision
- Baucis was turned into a linden tree and Philemon into an oak, two different but beautiful trees intertwined with one another. Eyecandy #7: Arboretal arabesques « Jahsonic
- The story of Baucis and Philemon is in Ovid's Metamorphoses, viii., Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
- Suddenly Baucis and Philemon each saw the other putting forth leaves. Eyecandy #7: Arboretal arabesques « Jahsonic
- Philemon. (1 page) The epistle is the most important early Christian writing dealing with forgiveness. Archive 2009-04-01
- The hour-long "Philemon and Baucis" is based on a myth about a poor old couple who shelter and feed the disguised Jupiter and Mercury after their neighbors have turned them away. Passion and Precision
- The Epistle of Philemon was used by both sides in the debate and, like the (spurious) notion that the curse of Ham was black skin (which is at odds with the begatting Ham does of most of Babylonia), is evidence only of religion being (re) interpreted for use as post facto moral justification for prejudice, the dehumanisation at the heart of it, and the abhorrent socio-political exploitations born of it. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
