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To: wagglebee
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
410 posted on 10/26/2009 11:58:34 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: UriÂ’el-2012; NYer; narses; Petronski; Mad Dawg
Paul asks that YHvH would have granted that Onesiphorus been given mercy on the day, when he, Onesiphorus, searched for Paul in Rome.

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.

412 posted on 10/26/2009 12:10:58 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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