Matthew Poole and continuators on Philemon 1:19

19 I Paul have written it with my own hand, I will repay it , albeit I do not say unto thee, how thou owest unto me even thy own self besides .

Thou hast it here under my hand, I take upon me to satisfie thee Onesimus his debt, yet

I could tell thee, that thou owest me more then it can be, even thy own self, God having made use of me as an instrument to convert, and turn thee unto God. Such persons are great debtors to their spiritual Fathers, Rom. 15.27.