72 Gk. ώς ϰατ’ ἀνάγϰην.
72Gk. ώς ϰατ’ ἀνάγϰην.
73Gk. μή ἐϰ λὑπης ἢ ἐξ ἀνάγϰης.
74A quotation from Prov. 22:8a LXX (ἄνδϱα ίλαϱóν ϰαὶ δóτην εὐλoγεῖ ὁ θεóς).
75ϰωϱὶς δἐ τῆς σῆς γνώμης, “but without your consent,” says Paul, “I would take no action” (oὐδἐν ἠθέλησα πoɩῆσαɩ, possibly, but not necessarily, epistolary aorist); for γνώμη in the sense of “consent” or “approval” cf. Ignatius, Polyc. 5:2, “it is right for men and women who marry to be joined with the consent of the bishop (μετὰ γνώμης τoῦ ἐπɩσϰóπoν).”
76Gk. ἀπέϰω, an emphatic compound of ἔϰω, used (e.g.) of receiving payment in full (as in Phil. 4:18), hence rendered “have him to yourself,” “keep him.”
77Rendering the emphatic ϰαί.
78D* adds ἐν ϰνϱίῳ (as at the end of v. 16).
79D2 and the majority of cursives read ἐν ϰνϱίῳ.
80J. Knox (Philemon among the Letters, p. 22) sees (tentatively) a connection between ἐϰωϱίσθη here and ϰωϱὶς . . . τῆς σῆς γνώμης in v. 14; this is quite improbable.
81The implied agent in the passive ἐϰωϱίσθη is God.