13. oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, but was let--hindered.
hitherto--chiefly by his desire to go first to places where Christ
was not known
(Ro 15:20-24).
that I might have some fruit--of my ministry
among you also, even as among other Gentiles--The GENTILE origin of the Church at Rome is here so
explicitly stated, that those who conclude, merely from the Jewish
strain of the argument, that they must have been mostly Israelites,
decide in opposition to the apostle himself. (But see on
Introduction
to this Epistle.)
JFB.
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