Section 192
98Gk. ύπαϰoή, used of the obedience which, by virtue of his apostolic authority, he demands from his recalcitrant converts in Corinth (2 Cor. 7:15; 10:6); it is ultimately obedience to Christ (2 Cor. 10:5).
99See p. 186, nn. 78, 79 (on Col. 4:18). The bare fact of his writing ἔγϱαψα (epistolary aorist, as in v. 19) would not necessarily mean that his hand held the pen (this inference is not naturally drawn from the repeated ἔγϱαψα of 1 Cor. 5:9, 11 and it would be wrong to draw it from Rom. 15:15): qui facit per alium facit per se. But in the clausula of the letter the author’s own handwriting would be expected.
100Gk. ξενία, used in Acts 28:23 of Paul’s lodgings in Rome. It is not expressly said here that the guestroom would be in Philemon’s house, but a house which could accommodate a local church would no doubt have room for an apostle whose requirements were very modest. Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus A.D. 423-c. 466, says in the preface to his commentary on this letter that Philemon’s house had survived to his own day (PG 82.871 A).
101Cf. M. Dibelius, ad loc.; see also pp. 194-95 above.