Having confidence in your obedience I wrote unto you, knowing that you will also do more than I say.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
What stone would not these words have softened? What wild beast would not these requests have rendered mild and prepared to receive him heartily? … What he had said at the beginning, “having confidence,” that he also says here in the sealing up of his letter…. This also was the part of one who was exceedingly confident. It may also be the case that this statement too was in behalf of Onesimus. For he, not being a neutral personage but rather being intimately knowledgeable about Paul’s situation and special to the apostle, they might lay aside all remembrance of the wrong and might the rather grant the favor.
