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Updated: June 16, 2025

Not Philemon's but Paul's views are in dispute; and if Philemon did liberate Onesimus which is a pure assumption Paul certainly did not advise him to do anything of the kind. Paul's epistle to Philemon does not, from its very-nature, seem intended for publication.

G. W. (George William) Foote - Flowers of Freethought: (Second Series)