“The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen. Written from Rome to Philemon, by Onesimus a servant.”
And so the letter closes with the invocation of Christ's grace upon Philemon's spirit, grounding the entire appeal in soteriological reality — the power that redeems Onesimus is the same power that redeems Philemon, dissolving the categories that separated them and creating new kinship in the Lord.
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