{If you downloaded the schedule for this lenten reading, be aware that I forgot to include Philemon and the Peters in the schedule (as well as Esther, but we’re well past that now) and so in order to include them I am fiddling with the schedule from now until Saturday}
In light of the previous post, the rhetorical moves that Paul makes in the book of Philemon are very interesting. Some of them are obvious (I say nothing about your owing me even your own self), and some less so. A less obvious move:
Paul lays the characters in the Philemon - Onesimus saga over the roles in the story of the Cross, so that Philemon - rhetorically speaking - occupies Christ’s role. As such, Philemon has the opportunity to redeem Onesimus as he himself had been redeemed.
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