unto you. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established (1:10-11). Paul's motive for going to Rome wasn't to see the great Forum or the Circus Maximus, but to minister to the believers. He wanted to impart some spiritual gift through which they might be strengthened. That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me (1:12). Gathering together with God's people has a two-way effect. You cannot minister to others without being ministered to yourself. That's the beauty of sharing our spiritual gifts with one another. Jesus said, "Give, and it shall be given unto you" (Luke 6:38a). Sowing the truth in love always reaps the same. Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles (1:13). Paul wanted to visit them before, but had been hindered. The apostle wasn't deliberately slighting the Romans by his absence. I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise (1:14). "Barbarian" is an unfortunate word here because of its modern meaning as "savage." The term originated because the Greeks considered that all foreign languages sounded like "bar-bar" on incomprehensible babbling. The expression actually referred to those who didn't speak Greek. It wasn't a derogatory expression in Paul's day.
unto you. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established (1:10-11). Paul's motive for going to Rome wasn't to see the great Forum or the Circus Maximus, but to minister to the believers. He wanted to impart some spiritual gift through which they might be strengthened. That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me (1:12). Gathering together with God's people has a two-way effect. You cannot minister to others without being ministered to yourself. That's the beauty of sharing our spiritual gifts with one another. Jesus said, "Give, and it shall be given unto you" (Luke 6:38a). Sowing the truth in love always reaps the same. Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles (1:13). Paul wanted to visit them before, but had been hindered. The apostle wasn't deliberately slighting the Romans by his absence. I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise (1:14). "Barbarian" is an unfortunate word here because of its modern meaning as "savage." The term originated because the Greeks considered that all foreign languages sounded like "bar-bar" on incomprehensible babbling. The expression actually referred to those who didn't speak Greek. It wasn't a derogatory expression in Paul's day.
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