How To Use Philemon In A Sentence
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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
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The picture makes me think of Philemon and Baucis.
It arrived late in an aging civilization « Jahsonic
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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
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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
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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
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The story of Baucis and Philemon is in Ovid's Metamorphoses, viii.,
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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Suddenly Baucis and Philemon each saw the other putting forth leaves.
Eyecandy #7: Arboretal arabesques « Jahsonic
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Philemon. (1 page) The epistle is the most important early Christian writing dealing with forgiveness.
Archive 2009-04-01
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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
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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
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Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to become Philemon and Baucis.
Les Miserables
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_trouse_, is of every-day use in this county of Hereford for trimmings of hedges; that it is given by Grose as a verb in use in Warwickshire for trimming off the superfluous branches; and lastly, that it is employed as a substantive to signify shreddings by Philemon Holland, who, if I rightly remember, was many years head master of Coventry Grammar School:
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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And there he was, just last night, in Mr. Keely's living room, listening to a discussion of Philemon for the Men's Bible Study Group.
SORT OF RICH
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The second obscure musical artifact revived at Spoleto this season was Haydn's 1773 marionette opera, "Philemon and Baucis," written for the marionette theater at Eszterh za.
Passion and Precision
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Philemon a favor, has to earnestly "beseech," almost command, his reception as a favor to himself.
Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible?
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PHILEMON was used to confess how, in the fire of his callow youth and fine flower of his lustie springal days, he had been stung with murderous frenzie at view of a certaine picture of Apelles, the which in those times was showed in a temple.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche 1909
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Though the apostles went out backed with the authority of the Son of God himself, yet their instructions were, when they came into a house, not to command it, but to salute it; for love's sake rather to beseech, is the evangelical way, Philemon 8, 9.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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Philemon picked out a pair of doeskin hose and put them on the bed.
WHEN THE HEAVENS FALL
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He was an unfaithful servant when he fled from his master Philemon.
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Case point: Zeus and Hermes visiting the earth and being turned away from every home except for Philemon and Baucis … There is but some similarity here …
Think Progress » Portugal’s parliament approves same-sex marriage.
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Philemon was a prominent Christian, probably a member of the church at Colossae and the owner of a slave named Onesimus.
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Psychologically, Philemon represents superior insight to Jung.
