rwp@Philemon:1:11 @{Onesimus} (\Onsimon\). A common name among slaves and made like Chresimus, Chrestus. The word is from \onsis\ (profit) and that from \oninmi\, to profit, to help. {Who was aforetime unprofitable to thee} (\ton pote soi achrston\). "The once to thee useless one." Play (pun) on the meaning of the name Onesimus (\onsimos\, useful) as once "useless" (\achrstos\, verbal adjective, \a\ privative and \chraomai\, to use). {But now is profitable to thee and to me} (\nuni de soi kai emoi euchrston\). "But now to thee and to me useful." Still further play on the name Onesimus by \euchrston\ (verbal adjective from \eu\ and \chraomai\, to use). Ethical dative here (\soi, emoi\).