Matthew Poole and continuators on Philemon 1:16

16 Not now as a servant , but above a servant , a brother beloved , specially to me , but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord .

Not now meerly as a Servant.

But as one that deserveth much more kindness then a Servant.

Being a Christian deservedly to be loved.

Especially of me who have a spiritual relation to him, as the instrument of his conversion, and as he hath been useful in ministring to me in Prison.

But how much more to thee to whom he stands not onely in the relation of a Brother, being converted to the Christian Faith, but in the Flesh, as thy Kinsman, or thy Servant, or one of thy Family, or thy Countrey man, one of the same Town and Place.