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32Paul does not imply, as Knox thinks, that Onesimus was the new Christian name which he himself gave to his convert; he would not introduce him in the letter by a name which his master would not recognize. (See p. 214 with n. 62.)
33Knox argues that Ignatius’s reference to the Ephesian church’s “well-loved name” (τò πολυαγάπητóν σου ὄνομα, Eph. 1:1) is to be understood as an allusion to the name of its bishop, who went to Smyrna to greet Ignatius as his church’s representative: “I received in the name of God your whole community in Onesimus” (Eph. 1:3).
34See J. I. Cook, Edgar Johnson Goodspeed: Articulate Scholar (Chico, CA, 1981), pp. 9-21.