seautou identifies the same person in self-directed actions, personal claims, and comparison with one’s neighbor.

The attested use consistently marks reflexive reference: a person acts upon, speaks about, or has something connected with that same person. The clauses include self-directed commands and actions, statements made about one’s own person or initiative, and the comparison of loving a neighbor in relation to oneself.

1. Reflexive reference to the same person · dominant

   The forms identify the person to whom an action, statement, or relation turns back. In 1 Timothy 4:7 the accusative form occurs in the command that the APB renders “train yourself,” while 1 Timothy 4:16 has both dative and accusative forms in the instruction to attend to oneself and thereby save oneself. The same reflexive relation appears in Matthew 22:39, where the APB renders the comparison “love your neighbor as yourself,” and in John 18:34, where the genitive form occurs in the question rendered “of your own accord.”

   1 Timothy 4:71 Timothy 4:16Matthew 22:39John 18:34Acts 26:1Romans 2:1

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the reflexive relation with “yourself,” as in commands to train, save, or show oneself, and in the neighbor-love comparison. In other clauses it uses wording such as “your own accord” or “about yourself”; These renderings only indicate the clause’s overall presentation.