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# Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and the brother Timothy, to Philemon
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Your language may have a particular way of introducing the authors of a letter. Three times Paul identifies himself as the author of this letter. Evidently Timothy was with him and probably wrote the words down as Paul said them. Alternate translation: "I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, our brother, are writing this letter to Philemon"
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# a prisoner of Christ Jesus
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"a prisoner for the sake of Christ Jesus." People who opposed Paul's preaching had punished him by putting him into prison.
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# brother
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Here this means a fellow Christian.
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# our dear friend
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The word "our" here refers to Paul and those with him but not to the reader.
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# and fellow worker
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"who, like us, works to spread the gospel"
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