I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it: nevertheless I do not say to you how you owe me even your own self besides.
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Thomas Aquinas
AD 1274
Therefore he says, I, Paul, as if to say, that you might be certain of restitution. I write it with my own hand. And this not out of necessity, because you owe me your very self, because I snatched you from eternal death, and thus he should do this for his liberator. Tobias 9:2: ‘If I should give myself to be your servant, I should not make a worthy return for your care.’
