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77 ℵ2 D Ψ and the majority of later witnesses add ἀμήν. See p. 224, n. 111.
78Cf. Gal. 6:11. O. Roller argues (quite unconvincingly) that when Paul statedly wrote the final greeting himself it is implied that he wrote the whole letter; otherwise the amanuensis composed the final greeting (Das Formular der paulinischen Briefe [Stuttgart, 1933], pp. 187-91).
79Cicero commonly wrote his letters himself, but when he used an amanuensis he indicated that the letter-closing was in his own hand (“hoc manu mea,” Att. 13.28). In a letter to Atticus he quotes a sentence from a letter which he himself had received from Pompey and says that the sentence came ”in extremo, ipsius manu” (Att. 8.1). Deissmann (Light from the Ancient East, pp. 171-72) quotes as a parallel BGU 37, where a different hand (presumably the author’s) at the end of the letter adds ἔϱϱωσο (“Farewell”) and the date. See also Deissmann’s remarks in Paul, p. 13, on some practical implications of the fact that Paul’s letters were usually dictated.
80See also his autograph and signature in the body of the letter to Philemon (v. 19).