My son; for whom he felt the affection of a spiritual father.

Onesimus; who had been a servant to Philemon, but had left him and gone to Rome.

Whom I have begotten; whom Paul, while a prisoner at Rome, had been the means of converting. In the days of Paul, when a servant left his master and went to a distant place, it was the duty of Christians to whom he went, diligently to instruct him in the Christian religion, and if possible lead him to embrace the Saviour. This duty Paul performed, and for its effects he and Onesimus will bless God for ever.

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