There greet you Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus;
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Epaphras was sent by the Colossians, so that from this it appears that Philemon was also at Colossae. And Paul calls him his “fellow prisoner,” showing that he was also in great tribulation, so that if not on his own account, yet on account of Epaphras, it was right that he should be heard.
