Philemon Chapter 1 verse 22 Holy Bible
But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.
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And make a room ready for me; for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be given to you.
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But withal prepare me also a lodging; for I hope that I shall be granted to you through your prayers.
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But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.
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Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
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and at the same time also prepare for me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted to you.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 22. - Lodging. There was this one additional inducement that could be brought to bear upon the mind of Philemon, viz. the expectation of speedily seeing him in person, and this, in conclusion, he uses. "I do not think that the apostle was so rich or encumbered with such great packages that he needed a lodging prepared beforehand, and was not content with a narrow dwelling-place, but thought the most spacious houses scanty for the accommodation of his small body; but that, while Philemon was expecting [the apostle] to come to him, he would the more do what he had requested" (Jerome). Meyer makes much of the improbability that St. Paul, starting from Rome, should bespeak a lodging in Colossae. Yet he suggests that it was perfectly natural that, starting from Caesarea, the apostle should take Colossae on the road to Rome. But the one seems almost as probable as the other. The apostle, on his release, had, so far as we know, no definite plans; the cities of Asia Minor were familiar to him, and he would naturally prepare to go wherever the first pressing occasion, that of Onesimus, called him. N reads ἀσπάξεται, "salutes."
