1st Corinthians Chapter 16 verse 21 Holy Bible
The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
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I, Paul, send you these words of love in my writing.
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The salutation of [me] Paul with my own hand.
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The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.
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This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.
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The salutation of `me' Paul with my hand;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - With mine own hand. Every one of St. Paul's Epistles, except that to the Galatians (Galatians 6:11), seems to have been written by an amanuensis. The blaze of light in the vision on the road to Damascus seems to have left him with acute and permanent ophthalmia as his "thorn in the flesh;" and this would naturally disincline him to the physical labour of writing. When he did write, his letters seem to have been large and straggling (Galatians 6:11), But this was an age in which documents were frequently falsified by designing persons, and this seems to have happened to St. Paul after he had written his very first extant letter. After warning the Thessalonians not to be frightened "by epistle as from us" (2 Thessalonians 2:2), he adds, at the close of the letter, that henceforth he intends to authenticate every letter by an autograph salutation (2 Thessalonians 3:17; Colossians 4:18; Romans 16:22). To this bad and dangerous practice of forgery is due the energetic appeal of Revelation 22:18, 19. A similar appeal to copyists, couched in the most solemn language, is found in Irenaeus ('Opp.,' 1:821, edit. Stieren), and at the end of Rufinus's prologue to his translation of Origen's 'De Principiis.'
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.--It was the Apostle's habit to dictate his Epistles, but to add a few words at the end in his own handwriting. (See 2Thessalonians 3:17.) The concluding verses here are accordingly St. Paul's autograph. The earlier portions had been written by Sosthenes. (See 1Corinthians 1:1.)
