yet out of [mutual] love, I appeal to you [to do what I ask]. For I Paul, am an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus. [Note: Most calculations suggest that Paul was approximately 60 years old, which was considered a relatively advanced age in that day].

For, peradventure, for this cause, was he separated for an hour, that, as an age-abiding possession, thou mightest have him back, -