Verse 11
Evidently Paul wrote the rest of this letter himself. He probably dictated the former verses to a scribe (cf. 1 Corinthians 16:21; Colossians 4:18; 2 Thessalonians 3:17). The "large letters" were probably capitals used for the sake of emphasis and to distinguish Paul’s handwriting from his secretary’s.
Betz observed that what Paul wrote with his own hand "contains the interpretive clues to the understanding of Paul’s major concerns in the latter as a whole and should be employed as the hermeneutical key to the intentions of the Apostle." [Note: Betz, pp. 312-13.]
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