Philemon 1:16

Not now [ο υ κ ε τ ι]. Rev., more correctly, no longer. The negative adverb oujketi states the fact absolutely, not as it may be conceived by Philemon [μ η κ ε τ ι]. However Philemon may regard Onesimus, as a fact he is now no longer as a slave.

Above [υ π ε ρ]. Rev., more than. More than a slave - a whole man. Especially [μ α λ ι σ τ α]. Connect with beloved. Especially to me as compared with other Christians.

How much more [π ο σ ω μ α λ λ ο ν]. Beloved most to Paul, how much more than most to Philemon, since he belonged to him in a double sense, as a slave and as a Christian brother : in the flesh and in the Lord. "In the flesh Paul had the brother for a slave : in the, Lord he had the slave for a brother" (Meyer).