42 Chris Keith Philemon. Some scholars see Paul as interrupting the work of the scribe in order to write himself in Phlm 19 (13). Lemaire, however, thinks that Paul penned the entirety of the epistle (14). Occupying a middle ground, Harris notes that the autograph’s location outside the end of the epistle is not necessarily evidence that Paul wrote its entirety, but also observes that one cannot rule out this possibility based on the brevity of the letter (15). More recently, Arzt-Grabner has claimed the idiom in Phlm 19 (stating that one writes in one’s own hand) does not decidedly clarify whether Paul used a secretary for the rest of the epistle one way or another (16). He cites similar occurrences of the idiom in documentary papyri where no obvious change of scribal hand appears, and thus considers it more probable that Paul wrote all of Philemon than that he took over from the amanuensis at this point (17). One can therefore certainly not rule out the possibility that Paul penned all of Philemon. Nevertheless, one can also not rule out the possibility that, along with passages such as Gal 6,11 and 2 Thess 3,17, Phlm 19 assumes that a reader could inspect the autograph and notice a particular style of handwriting that was different from the rest of the epistle and identifiable with Paul’s. The important point for the present study is that Paul has grabbed the reed and written at least Phlm 19 himself. I will thus proceed from this fact and focus my study on it and the other four explicit statements of writing without speculating on what else in the epistle he may/could have also written. As a third preliminary observation, and possibly in tension with the idea that he wrote all of Philemon, Paul draws attention to the “big letters” he writes in Gal 6,11. What does Paul’s “big letters” signify? Explicitly rejecting the idea that the size of the letters reflects the importance of the words, Deismann considers Gal 6,11 to be the “clumsy, awkward writing” of an “artisan missionary” who is “no (13) J.D.G. DUNN, The Epistles to the Colossians and to Philemon (NIGTC; Grand Rapids, MI 1996) 339 (also p. 289 in reference to Col 4,18); RICHARDS, Secretary, 178-179; R.McL. WILSON, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Colossians and Philemon (ICC; London 2005) 358. (14) A. LEMAIRE, “Writing and Writing Materials”, ABD VI, 1006. (15) HARRIS, Colossians and Philemon, 273-274. Lohse (Colossians and Philemon, 204, n. 71) too, remains agnostic on the issue. (16) P. ARZT-GRABNER, Philemon (Papyrologische Kommentare zum Neuen Testament 1; Göttingen 2003) 243. (17) ARZT-GRABNER, Philemon, 240-243 (entire discussion); 242 (probable that Paul wrote Philemon).