Section 185
62This would be the natural conclusion if Paul said ὅν ’Oνήσɩμoν ἐγέννησα. But he says ὅν ἐγέννησα ἐν τoῖς δεσμoῖς, ’Oνήσɩμoν. The masculine relative pronoun ὅν has been attracted into the gender of ’Oνήσɩμoν instead of the neuter gender of its antecedent τέϰνoν (ὅ). The postponement of “Onesimus” to the end of the adjective clause is rhetorically effective: “I am asking for my child, whom I have begotten while a prisoner; I am asking, in short, for—Onesimus!”
63LSJ cite Artemidorus, Onirocriticus 1.44: oί παῖδες σπλάγϰνα λέγoνταɩ (“children are called ’bowels’ ”); cf. Sophocles, Antigone 1066: τῶν σῶν . . . ἐϰ σπλάγϰνων ἓνα (“one from your own loins”).
64Cf. 2 Cor. 6:12; 7:15; Phil. 1:8; 2:1; Col. 3:12.
65The pronoun αὐτóν in ὅν ἀνέπεμψά σoɩ, αὐτóν is not necessary to complete the sense, but it adds emphasis (cf. p. 210, n. 47).
66Gk. ἐβoυλóμην, as in Acts 25:22, ἐβoυλóμην . . . ἀϰoῦσαɩ, “I should like to hear” (cf. the similar imperfect ηὐϰóμην in Rom. 9:3, ηὐϰóμην . . . ἀνάθεμα 
, “I could pray to be accursed”). C. F. D. Moule (IBNTG, p. 9) calls this the “desiderative imperfect”; he mentions, however, the possibility that the tense in the present instance might be epistolary (this, me iudice, is less likely). This usage of ἐβoνλóμην without ἂν is classical as well as Hellenistic (cf. W. W. Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb [London, 1929], § 425, pp. 157-58; E. D. Burton, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek [Edinburgh, 1898], § 33, pp. 15-16).
67For the sense of πϱóς in πϱòς ἐμαυτóν (“with myself”) cf. Mark 6:3; 9:19; 14:49; John 1:1-2; 1 Thess. 3:4.