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KwabaseRoma 15:22
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I have: Romans 1:13, 1 Thessalonians 2:17, 1 Thessalonians 2:18
much: or, many ways, or, oftentimes
Reciprocal: Acts 27:1 - when Acts 28:16 - Rome Romans 1:10 - request 1 Corinthians 9:12 - hinder
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For which cause also,.... By reason of being employed for so many years, in preaching the Gospel from Jerusalem, round about to Illyricum; taking so large a compass to minister in, and striving to introduce, propagate, and spread the Gospel, where Christ was never named before:
I have been much hindered from coming to you; or he had been often, and by many ways, and upon many accounts, hindered from coming to them; the frequent calls to different and distant places, and the great work of preaching the Gospel in those dark parts of the world, and settling churches there, which was upon his hands, prevented his giving them a visit at Rome, which he much and often desired: as in the preceding verses the apostle excuses his freedom of writing to this church, so here his long delay of coming to them, assigning the reason of it.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For which cause - I have been so entirely occupied in this leading purpose of my life, that I have not been able to come to you.
Much hindered - Many ways; not many times. I had so frequent and urgent demands on my time elsewhere, that I could not come to you.
From coming to you - Where the gospel “has been” preached. I have desired to come, but have been unable to leave the vast region where I might preach the gospel to those who had never heard it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 22. For which cause, c.] My considering it a point of honour to build on no other man's foundation and, finding that the Gospel has been long ago planted at Rome, I have been prevented from going thither, purposing rather to spend my time and strength in preaching where Christ has not, as yet, been proclaimed.
