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Matt. XXVii. 55, Acts xix. 22, Rom. XV. 25, Heb. vi. 1Ο.
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δοῦλον 3 ἀλλὰ ὑπὲρ δοῦλον,2 " ἀδελφὸν ὅ ἀγαπητόν, "μάλιστα ἐμοί, 3.
ἐ πόσῳ δὲ μᾶλλον σοὶ καὶ "ἐν σαρκὶ καὶ “ ἐν κυρίῳ. ἔχεις “ κοινωνόν, ” προσλαβοῦ αὐτὸν ὡς ἐμέ.
> « n 2 Cor. ix 17. εἰ οὖν µε 7, Heb. Vii. 12.
18. εἰ δὲ τι ” ἠδίκησέν ο Rom. v. 7.
a Ε a =p i Cor. νι. σε ἢ "ὀφείλει, τοῦτο ἐμοὶ " ἐλλόγα "4 το. " ἐγὼ Παῦλος ἔγραψα τῇ ἢ τι τοῦ q Matt. v. whe Ἴ ) κι ν 16, Vi. 2, Phil. iv. 18. τ Eph. vi. 21, Col. iv. 7, 9. s 1 Tim. iv. 1Ο. t Rom. xi. 12, 24. ul Tim. 111. 16. v Rom. xvi. 2, Phil. ii. 29. wi Cor. x. 18, 20. x Acts xxviii. 2, Roin. xiv. 1,
3, XV. 7. y Matt. xx. 13, 1 Cor. vi. 8. 11,2 Thess. iii. 17.
10m. D. SSO mn Ες Philad. 5, 8 (Sanday, Bampton Lectures, Ρ- 310). ;
Ver. 14. With the thought of this verse cf. 2 Cor. ix. 7, 1 Peter v. 2.—os κατὰ ἀνάγκην: “St. Paul does not say κατὰ ἀνάγκην but ὡς κατὰ ἀνάγκην. He will not suppose that it would really be constraint; but it must not even wear the appearance (ὡς) of being so. cf. 2 Cor. xi. 17, ὡς ἐν ἀφροσύνῃ ” (Lightfoot).
Ver. 15. ἐχωρίσθη: avery delicate way of putting it—mwpés ὥραν: cf. 2 Cor. vii. 8, Gal. 11. 5.--αἰώνιον: there is no reason why this should not be taken in a literal sense, the reference being to Onesimus as ἀδελφὸν ἀγαπητόν, not as δοῦλον.- ἀπέχτῃς: cf. Phil. iv. 18, al- though the idea of restitution is prominent here, that of complete possession seems also to be present in view of αἰώνιον and ἀδελφὸν ἀγαπ., but see further Intr., ὃ Ill.
Ver. 16. οὐκέτι ὡς δοῦλον: no longer in the character ofa slave, accord- ing to the world’s acceptation of the term, though still a slave (see, however,
the note on v. 21); but the relationship -
between slave and master were in this instance to become αἰϊοτεᾶ.- -πόσῳ δὲ
ἄλλον . . . : #.¢., more than most of all (which he had been to St. Paul) to thee.—With the thought of the verse Gf ο τη . 5.
Ver. τὴς ἔχεις - . . : for this use of ἔχω cf. Luke xiv. 18, Phil. ii. 29.— κοινωνόν: for the idea see Rom. xii. 13, xv. 26 f., 2 Cor. viii. 4, ix. 13, Gal. vi. 6, Phil. iv. 15,1 Tim. vi. 18, Heb. xiii. 16. --προσλαβοῦ αὐτὸν ὡς ἐμέ: cf. τὰ ἐμὰ σπλάγχνα in v.12. An interest- ing parallel (given by Deissmann, of. cit. pp. 128 f.) occurs in a papyrus of the second century, written in Latin by a
z Matt. xviii. 28.
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a Rom. v. 13. b Gal. vi.
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freedman, Aurelius Archelaus, to the military tribune, Julius Domitius: ‘ Al- ready once before have I commended unto thee my friend Theon. And now again, I pray thee, my lord, that he may be in thy sight as I myself’? (ut eum ant’ oculos habeas tanquam me),
Ver. 18. εἰ δὲ τι: as Lightfoot says, the case is stated hypothetically, but the words doubtless describe the actual offence of Onesimus.—é€AAd ya: only elsewhere in N.T. in Rom. v. 13; it occurs on the papyri (Deissmann, op. cit., Ῥ. 52), “to reckon unto”; here, in the sense: “put it down to my ac-
Ver. 19. ἐγὼ Παῦλος: “ The in- troduction of his own name gives it the character of a formal and binding signa- ture, cf. 1 Cor. xvi. 21, Col. iv. 18, 2 Thess. iii. 17” (Lightfoot)—_éypawa τῇ ἐμῇ χειρί ἀποτίσω : ἔγρ. epis- tolary aorist, cf. 1 Pet. v. 12,1 Johnii. 14, 21, 26. Deissmann (0p. cit., p. 239) calls attention to the large number of papyri which are acknowledgments of debt (Schuldhandschrift); a stereotyped phrase which these contain is, “I will repay,” usually expressed by ἀποδώσω ; in case the debtor is unable to write a representa- tive who can do so expressly adds, “1 have written this for him”. The following Ἴ6 an example: “... which we also will repay . . . besides whatever else there is (ἄλλων ὧν) which we owe over and above ... 1, Papos, write it for him, because he cannot write”. See also Deissmann’s Neue Bibelstudien, p. 67, under χειρόγραφον. It seems certain from the words ἔγραψα . . . (cf. aiso v. 21) that St. Paul wrote the whole of this epistle himself; this was quite ex- ceptional, as he usually employed an