Who in time past was to you unprofitable, but now profitable to you and to me:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
See how great is Paul’s prudence, how he confesses the man’s faults and thereby extinguishes Philemon’s anger…. He has not said Onesimus will be useful to you, lest Philemon should refute this argument, but he has introduced his own person, that his hopes may seem worthy of trust. “But now,” he says, “profitable to you and to me.” For if Onesimus was profitable to Paul, who was quite strict, how more would he be so to his master.
