Reverence Due to Old Age
Philemon 1:9
Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.


Old men are to be reverenced —

1. For their very age, because they draw nearest to the Ancient of Days (Leviticus 19:32).

2. For their wisdom.

3. For their experience.

4. For their piety (Proverbs 16:31).

(W. Jones, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

WEB: yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.




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