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- Paul asks that YHvH would have granted that Onesiphorus been given As Peter notes, Paul is sometime hard to understand. The plain text:
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach 16 The Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus,
Sorry I read only the plain text.
for he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains;
- and you know very well what services he rendered at Ephesus.
mercy on the day, when he, Onesiphorus, searched for Paul in Rome. 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.
So, Saint Paul is praying about something that has already happened and no longer bears any significance?
Isn't YOPIOS a magnificent invention, it allows the "interpreter" to dismiss everything they don't like as insignificant.
As Peter notes, Paul is sometime hard to understand.
Which is why I really on two thousand years of Church teaching and ignore the seemingly endless new conclusions that are reached by those employing the 16th century man-made invention of YOPIOS.