Philemon 1 - Introduction

It will be remembered that this epistle is no longer extant in B.

Title, πρὸς Φιλήμονα אA, a few cursives, memph., gothic. 257 (fscr = Evan. 543) has παῦλος ἐπιστέλλει τάδε βέβαια Φιλήμονι πιστῷ (vide Scrivener’s Cod. Augiensis, Appendix, p. 520), which by correcting βέβαια to βαιὰ makes an hexameter, “Paul on a slender theme thus writes to the faithful Philemon” (see Moule).