[wagglebee]

A clear reading of the test is Paul is hoping that YHvH would have granted salvation to Onesiphorus on the day they had met in Rome when he was alive.

Why then is Saint Paul asking the Saint Timothy to pray for Onesiphorus? If the event has already transpired, no amount of prayer can change it.

[Uri’el-2012]

Why then is Saint Paul asking the Saint Timothy to pray for Onesiphorus? If the event has already transpired, no amount of prayer can change it.

The plain text:

16 The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus,
for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;

17 but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me--

18 the Lord grant to him to find mercy from the Lord on that day-
- and you know very well what services he rendered at Ephesus.

Sorry I read only the plain text.

Paul asks that YHvH would have granted that Onesiphorus been given
mercy on the day, when he, Onesiphorus, searched for Paul in Rome.

As Peter notes, Paul is sometime hard to understand.

NAU 2 Peter 3:16 as also in all his letters,
speaking in them of these things,
in which are some things hard to understand,
which the untaught and unstable distort,
as they do also the rest of the Scriptures,
to their own destruction.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach