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I'm Patrick Miller.

Phileiman is one of the shortest books in the Bible, and it's not really a book, it's a letter. And it's a rather strange letter.

If you read it, you really will start wondering how was this letter

kept how was this letter passed on and why? But I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit of

context here. Vylemen he was a leader in the church in Kallase.

That's the very church that the Book of Colossians was written to.

But like many Romans in his day, Phineen owned slaves.

One of those slaves grew disillusioned with Phineemann.

Perhaps Phineen treated him poorly.

We really don't know.

But that slave, a man named Onesimus,

he fled from Phileemann.

And then by unknown circumstances,

he eventually ended up all the way in Cessaria

Maritima that's on the west coast of Judea and there he connected with the

apostle Paul who was imprisoned now just a note here some people think this might have

been when Paul was in

prison in Rome and that's where Onesimus met him but either way Paul was

in prison and Onesimus found him. Now when Onesimus found him he and Paul they

became very close and Onessimus served Paul's needs and cared for him but eventually

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