who once was unprofitable to thee, but now is profitable to thee and to me:
Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
who once was to thee unprofitable, and now is profitable to me and to thee,
once unserviceable to thee, but now serviceable to thee and to me:
Philemon — Apostolic writings (New Testament).
1. A prisoner of Jesus Christ. In the same sense in which he elsewhere calls himself an Apostle of Christ, or a minister of Christ, he now calls himself "a prisoner of Christ;" because the chains by which he was bound on account of the gospel, were the ornaments or…