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Paul asks that Onesimus be received “no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother.” He applies this “both in the flesh and in the Lord,” emphasizing a new relationship language in the letter (Philemon 1:15–16).
15For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,
16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, specially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.