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ROM. I. 9-11.

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a For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you; Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company, Rom. xv. 22-24. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me; That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judæa; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints; That may come unto you with joy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed, 30-32. Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, Phil. iv. 6. Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again, but Satan hindered us, 1 Thess. ii. 18. Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith? Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you, iii. 10, 11. But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you, Philem. 22. But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner, Heb. xiii. 19.

b After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome, Acts xix. 21.

See on Acts xviii. ver. 21.

VER. 11.

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Ἐπιποθῶ γὰρ ἰδεῖν ὑμᾶς, ἵνα τι μεταδ χάρισμα ὑμῖν πνευματικὸν, εἰς τὸ στηριχ θῆναι ὑμᾶς·

For a I long to see you, bthat I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established ;

a And by their prayer for you, which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you, 2 Cor. ix. 14. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ, Phil. i. 8. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick, ii. 26. Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved, iv. 1.

b And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the Gospel of Christ, Rom. xv. 29. Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. And when Simon saw that through laying on of the Apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost, Acts viii. 15-19. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied, xix. 6. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every

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man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will, 1 Cor. xii. 1-11. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another Gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him, 2 Cor. xi. 4. This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? Gal. iii. 2-5. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, Eph. iv. 8-12.

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11, 12. God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper, 2 Chron. xx. 20. And so were the Churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily, Acts xvi. 5. Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God, 2 Cor. i. 21. And sent Timotheus our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow-labourer in the Gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith, 1 Thess. iii. 2. To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints, 13. Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work, 2 Thess. ii. 17. But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil, iii. 3. Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein, Heb. xiii. 9. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you, 1 Pet. v. 10. By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand, 12. Wherefore I will not not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth, 2 Pet. i. 12. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen, iii. 17, 18.

VER. 12.

Τοῦτο δέ ἐστι, συμπαρακληθῆναι ἐν ὑμῖν διὰ τῆς ἐν ἀλλήλοις πίστεως, ὑμῶν τε καὶ ἐμοῦ.

Now to him who is of power to stablish you according to my Gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, Rom. xvi. 25. Αnd | they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of That is, a that I may be comforted toTekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me,gether with you by the mutual faith O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Je- both of you and me. rusalem; Believe in the LORD your a Whensoever I take my journey into VOL. II.

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ROM. 1. 12, 13.

A. D. 60. Spain, I will come to you: for I trust | thanks can we render to God again to see you in my journey, and to be for you, for all the joy wherewith we brought on my way thitherward by joy for your sakes before our God; you, if first I be somewhat filled with Night and day praying exceedingly your company, Rom. xv. 24. That that we might see your face, and I may come unto you with joy by the might perfect that which is lacking will of God, and may with you be re- in your faith? iii. 7-10. Greatly freshed, 32. Who, when he came, and desiring to see thee, being mindful of had seen the grace of God, was glad, thy tears, that I may be filled with and exhorted them all, that with pur- joy, 2 Tim. i. 4. I rejoiced greatly pose of heart they would cleave unto that I found of thy children walking the Lord, Acts xi. 23. But I deter- in truth, as we have received a commined this with myself, that I would mandment from the Father, 2 John 4. not come again to you in heaviness. For I rejoiced greatly, when the breFor if I make you sorry, who is he thren came and testified of the truth then that maketh me glad, but the that is in thee, even as thou walkest same which is made sorry by me? in the truth. I have no greater joy And I wrote this same unto you, lest, than to hear that my children walk in when I came, I should have sorrow the truth, 3 John 3. 4. from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all, 2 Cor. ii. 1-3. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears. Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus; And not by his coming only, but by the consolation wherewith he was comforted in you, when he told us your earnest desire, your mourning, your fervent mind toward me; so that I rejoiced the more, vii. 4-7. Therefore we were comforted in your comfort: yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all, 13. But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not

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bOne Lord, one faith, one baptism, Eph. iv. 5. To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour, Tit. i. 4. Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, 2 Pet. i. 1. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints, Jude S.

VER. 13.

Οὐ θέλω δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοί, ὅτι πολλάκις προεθέμην ἐλθεῖν πρὸς ὑμᾶς, (καὶ ἐκωλύθην ἄχρι τοῦ δεῦρο,) ἵνα καρπόν τινα σχῶ καὶ ἐν ὑμῖν, καθὼς καὶ ἐν τοῖς λοιποῖς OvECIV.

Now I would not have you ignorant,

brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) c that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

a After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, after I have been there, I must also see Rome, Acts xix. 21. And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of

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Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judæa, 2 Cor. i. 15, 16.

b For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you, Rom. xv. 22. Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not, Acts xvi. 6, 7.

c See on John xv. ver. 16. clause 2. d For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed, Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel of Christ. Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation, Rom. xv. 18-20. And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles, Acts xiv. 27. Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabus and Paul, declaring what miracles and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them, xv. 12. And when he had saluted them, he declared particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry, xxi. 19. If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of my apostleship are ye in the Lord, 1 Cor. ix. 2. As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are our's in the day of the Lord Jesus, 2 Cor. ii. 14. But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as though we reached not unto you; for we are come as far as to you also in preaching the Gospel of Christ: Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours;

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but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, To preach the Gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand, x. 13-16. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come, 1 Thess. i. 9, 10. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judæa are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews, ii. 13, 14. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion, 2 Tim. iv. 17.

VER. 14.

Ελλησί τε καὶ βαρβάροις, σοφοῖς τε καὶ avonтois opeiλérng eiμí·

I am a debtor both to the Greeks, and to the b Barbarians; both to the "wise, and to the unwise.

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Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh, Rom. viii. 12. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law, xiii. 8. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common, Acts ix. 15. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabus and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus, xiii. 2-4. And he said unto

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ROM. I. 14, 15.

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came I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the Gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you, 1 Cor. ix. 10-23. Therefore I endure all things for the

tain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory, 2 Tim. ii. 10.

And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live, Acts xxviii. 4. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me, 1 Cor. xiv. 11. Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all, Col. iii. 11.

VER. 15.

Οὕτω, τὸ κατ ̓ ἐμὲ πρόθυμον, καὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς ἐν Ρώμῃ εὐαγγελίσασθαι.

me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles, xxii. 21. Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee, To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgive-elect's sakes, that they may also obness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me, xxvi. 17, 18. Őr saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ. Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which | preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel. But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the Gospel! For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the Gospel is committed unto me. What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the Gospel, I may make the Gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the Gospel. For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. To the weak be

to preach the Gospel to you that are at So, a as much as in me is, b I am ready

Rome also.

a If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men, Rom. xii. 18. And the LORD said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart, 1 Kings viii. 18. She bath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying, Mark xiv. 8. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not, 2 Cor. viii. 12.

b Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me, Isa. vi. 8. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest, Matt. ix. 38. Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work, John iv. 34. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready

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