with mine own hand] This is as it were a bill or obligation wherein he promiseth to pay the damage Onesimus had done unto his Master, that it might not stand in the way of his reconciliation. albeit I do] Gr. that I may not say. I do not say] I might request the to put up that debt or dammage in exchange of those spirituall gifts which thou hast received by my means, whereby thou art obliged to me for the salvation of thy soule, but in this I will gladly forgoe my own right, intending to give the full and entire satisfaction for any dammage thou hast sustained by Onesimus.