Afric American Scholars Are Rightly Pointing Out That Phileman Never Gives Voice to Onecimus

Scholars are rightly pointing out how phileman played a pretty central role in the pro slavery christian conversations. And one, one piece of that sle is a paul never actually gives voice to onecimus. He never says onesimus wants to say these things to you. Now, that may have been a convention that the mediator does the speaking, and this net an the other. But there's been a lot of scholars that have talked about how paul leaves onesimus basically out of it. This bothers me. It's not on the level of no crisis of faith, but on that question of, how is this the word of god for the people of god, when