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OET (OET-LV) Many things I_was_having to_write to_you, but not I_am_wanting through ink and pen to_you to_be_writing,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
διὰ μέλανος καὶ καλάμου
through ink and pen
John is using something associated with a letter, the ink and pen he would use to write a letter, to represent the letter itself. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation, as in UST: [in a letter]
1:13 pen and ink (literally ink and reed): In antiquity, writing was typically done with a stylus shaped from a reed and black carbon ink (see also 2 Jn 1:12).
OET (OET-LV) Many things I_was_having to_write to_you, but not I_am_wanting through ink and pen to_you to_be_writing,
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.