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In 19th century, friends and foes of slavery used Philemon to argue slavery
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In 19th century, friends and foes of slavery used Philemon to argue slavery

Slaveholders saw Paul as being OK with the legal framework for owning people

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Painting of man with halo embracing his slave.
Medieval painting of Philemon receiving Onesimus. Artist unknown. Image courtesy of Wikimedia.

It isn’t often that the interpretation of a book of the Bible becomes the subject of public debate, but that’s exactly what happened with the book of Philemon when the morality of slavery was the most hotly contested issue of 19th-century America.

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