A
Paul the presoner of Iesu Christ / and brother Timotheus.
Vnto Philemon the beloved / & oure helper / & to the beloved Appia / and to Archippus oure felowe soudier / and to the congregacion of thy housse.
Grace be with you & peace / from God oure father / & from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
I th
ke my God / makinge menci
all wayes of the in my prayers / when I heare of thy love and fayth / which thou hast towarde the Lorde Iesu / and towarde all saynctes: so that the fellisshippe that thou hast in the fayth / is frutefull thorow knowledge of all good thinges
/ which are in you by Iesus Christ. And we have great ioye / and consolacion over thy love: for by the (brother) the saynctes hertes are comforted.
B
Wherfore though I be bolde in Christ to enioyne the / that which bec

meth the: yet for loves sake I rather beseche the / though I be as I am / ev

Paul aged / & now in bondes for Iesu Christes sake. I beseche the for my sonne Onesimus / whom I begat in my bondes / which in tyme passed was to the vnproffetable: but now proffetable bothe to the & also to me / whom I have sent home agayne. Thou therfore receave him / that is to saye myne awne bowels / whom I wolde fayne have retayned with me / that in thy stede he myght have ministred vnto me in þ
e bondes of the gospell. Neverthelesse / without thy mynde / wolde I doo nothinge / that þ
t good which springeth of the / shuld not be as it were of necessitie / but willingly.
C
Haply he therfore departed for a season / þ
t thou shuldest receave him for ever / not nowe as a serva

t: but above a servaunt / I meane a brother beloved / specially to me: but how moche more vnto the / both in the flesshe / and also in the Lorde? Yf thou count me a felowe / receave him as my selfe. Yf he have hurt the or oweth the ought / that laye to my charge. I Paul have writt

it with myne awne h

de. I will recompence it. So that I do not saye to the / howe that thou owest vnto me ev

thyne awne silfe. Even so brother / let me enioye
the in the Lorde. Comforte my bowels in the Lorde. Trustinge in thyne obedi

ce / I wrote vnto the / knowynge that thou wilt do more then I saye for. Moreover prepare me lodgynge: for I trust thorow þ
e helpe of youre prayers / I shalbe geven vnto you. Ther salute þ
e / Epaphras my felowe presoner in Christ Iesu
1.C / Marcus / Aristarchus / Demas / Lucas / my helpers. The grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christ be with youre spretes. Amen.