Philemon, Epistle to, a short letter by Paul to a member of the Church at Colossæ on behalf of a slave, Onesimus, who had deserted his service, gone off with some of his property, and taken refuge in Rome, but had been converted to Christ, and whom he begs not to manumit, but simply to receive back as a brother for his sake.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Philatory * Philemon and Baucis