Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Romans 1:10
Always — In all my solemn addresses to God. If by any means now at length — This accumulation of particles declares the strength of his desire.
Always — In all my solemn addresses to God. If by any means now at length — This accumulation of particles declares the strength of his desire.
Verse Romans 1:10. _MAKING REQUEST_, c.] By this we see how earnestly the apostle longed to see Rome. It had long been a subject of continual prayer to God, that he might have a prosperous journey to...
MAKING REQUEST - It was his earnest desire to see them, and he presented the subject before God. IF BY ANY MEANS - This shows the earnest desire which he had to see them, and implies that be had desi...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. DOCTRINAL. THE SALVATION OF GOD. Chapter 1-8. CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Apostle and the Gospel of God. (Romans 1:1 .)_ 2. The Greeting. (Romans 1:7 .) 3. The Apostle's Prayer...
PAUL'S INTENTION TO VISIT ROME. Romans 1:8. Of the faith of the Romans the whole world hears: the Apostle thanks God for this, and names them constantly in his prayers. He invokes God as witness, for...
A CALL, A GOSPEL AND A TASK (Romans 1:1-7)...
To begin with, I thank my God for you all through Jesus Christ. I thank him that the story of your faith is told throughout the whole world. God, whom I serve in my spirit in the work of spreading the...
MAKING REQUEST. Greek. _deomai._ App-134. IF BY ANY MEANS. Greek. _eipo_ s. App-118. MIGHT... JOURNEY. Greek. _euodoumai._ Elsewhere, 1 Corinthians 16:2; 3 John 1:2. WILL. Greek. _thelema_. App-102...
_making request_ Connect this with the previous verse, and read WITHOUT CEASING I MAKE MENTION OF YOU, ALWAYS IN MY PRAYERS MAKING REQUEST, IF BY ANY MEANS, &c. The special "request made known to God...
The good report of the Roman Church. Paul desires to visit them, and to preach the gospel of faith to them...
A. Romans 1:1-17. INTRODUCTION. ADDRESS 1–7. OCCASION 8–15. SUBJECT 16–17. 1–7. Address. The writer’s (_a_) name and state, (_b_) office, (_c_) commission defined by a statement of (i) the Person from...
8–17. Thanksgiving 8–10 _a_ introduces the Occasion 10 _b_–15 and the Subject 16–17 of the Epistle. He gives thanks to GOD for the wide report of their faith as heartily as (9) his prayers for them ha...
ἘΠῚ, at. ΔΕΌΜΕΝΟΣ ΕἼ ΠΩΣ. Cf. Acts 8:22; cf. Blass, p. 216. ἬΔΗ ΠΟΤῈ, at long last. ΕΥ̓ΟΔΩΘΉΣΟΜΑΙ, “in passive always tropical; to prosper, be successful,” Thayer; 1 Corinthians 16:2; 3 John 1:2; but...
ΔΕΌΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. med. part. (dep.) от_ ΔΈΟΜΑΙ (1289) молиться, просить. Эпэкз. _part._ или _part._ образа действия объясняет, как или о чем молился Павел (ВВС), ΕΙ ΠΩΣ (G1487; G4458) если возможно. А...
DISCOURSE: 1820 PAUL’S LOVE TO THE CHURCH AT ROME Romans 1:9. God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;...
_RETHINKING IN OUTLINE FORM_ PART ONE INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS, Romans 1:1-15 I. Salutation. Romans 1:1-7 1. The Author. Romans 1:1 2. The Gospel in Review....
_TEXT_ Romans 1:8-13. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed throughout the whole world. Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in t...
Making request if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God...
1 Paul dates his apostleship from the commission he received at Antioch (Act_13:2) when he was severed from the rest to preach the evangel of God to the nations. Hitherto only Jews and proselytes like...
1:10 prospered (c-15) This does not refer to a prosperous journey, but to the hope that God may favour or prosper him so that he may come; he had long wished it, and hoped that at last it might be gra...
HAVE A PROSPEROUS JOURNEY] RV 'be prospered.' He knew his journey to Jerusalem would be dangerous, cp. Romans 15:30, but did not foresee that he would visit Rome as a prisoner: cp. Acts 27:24;...
THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL AND THE NEED OF THE WORLD. THE GUILT OF THE HEATHEN In his salutation the apostle emphasises his commission, and the greatness of the Person whose servant he is and who is the...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ABOUT THE FIRST CHRISTIANS IN ROME Rome was the most important city in the world at the tim...
IF BY ANY MEANS NOW AT LENGTH. — Note this accumulation of particles, denoting the earnestness of his desire. “All this time I have been longing to come to you, and now at last I hope that it may be p...
(9-11) It is the constant subject of the Apostle’s prayers that he may succeed in making his way to Rome; so anxious is he to open his heart to that Church in personal- apostolic intercourse....
(8-17) The Apostle congratulates the Romans on the good report of them that he had heard. He had long and earnestly desired to visit them in person. Yes, even in Rome he must preach the gospel — of wh...
CHAPTER 3 GOOD REPORT OF THE ROMAN CHURCH: PAUL NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL Romans 1:8 HE has blessed the Roman Christians in the name of the Lord. Now he hastens to tell them how he blesses God for...
THE APOSTLE'S BURNING DESIRE Romans 1:1 Upon the threshold of his greatest Epistle, Paul describes himself as a bond-servant. Such humility as his qualified him to be the medium of God's wondrous rev...
Bringing the first and seventh verses together, we find the called apostle writing to the called saints. As for himself, Paul declared, first, that he was debtor, because a gift had been bestowed on...
With the thanksgiving there is connected, as a second matter which he has to communicate to them, his not less unwearied _prayer_ that he might be able soon to visit them. The words: _always in my pra...
SECOND PASSAGE (1:8-15). THE INTEREST LONG TAKEN BY THE APOSTLE IN THE CHRISTIANS OF ROME. The address, had drawn a sort of _official_ bond between the apostle and the church. But Paul feels the need...
PREFACE. 1:1-15. THE framework of the Epistle to the Romans is, as we have seen, the same as that of the most of Paul's other Epistles: 1. An epistolary preface; 2. The body of the letter; 3. An epis...
First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. (9) For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that w...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
10._Requesting, if by any means, etc. _As it is not probable that we from the heart study his benefit, whom we are not ready to assist by our labors, he now adds, after having said that he was anxious...
There is no epistle in which the apostle places his apostleship on more positive and formal ground than in this; for at Rome he had no claim in virtue of his labours. He had never seen the Romans. He...
MAKING REQUEST, IF BY ANY MEANS NOW AT LENGTH,.... A principal thing, which be incessantly and importunately requested at the throne of grace, was, that he might have an opportunity of coming to them;...
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you. Ver. 10. _I might have a prosperous journey_] This he prayed, and this he had by s...
_For God is my witness_ In saying I am thankful for your conversion, I might be well supposed to speak the truth, such an event being perfectly agreeable to the continual tenor of my petitions to God;...
TO COME UNTO YOU; for the apostle had not yet been in Rome....
MAKING REQUEST IF BY ANY MEANS NOW AT LENGTH I MIGHT HAVE A PROSPEROUS JOURNEY BY THE WILL OF GOD TO COME UNTO YOU....
THE INTRODUCTION TO THE LETTER Paul's longing to see the Christians of Rome:...
The salutation (unusually long) occupies seven verses, - laying down distinctly, as it does, the complete foundation of that Gospel of which Paul was a messenger - thus introducing him with the Gospel...
ROMANS 1:1-17 1. How did Paul gain the ear of the Roman church? a. How did Paul establish a common tie with the Jews at Rome? i. Prophets ii. Quote from Scripture iii. Jesus was the seed of David...
MAKING REQUEST, IF BY ANY MEANS NOW AT LENGTH. MAY BE PROSPERED BY THE WILL OF GOD TO COME UNTO YOU. 'God is my witness' -he is not making. light statement, he is dead serious. Another indication th...
8-15 We must show love for our friends, not only by praying for them, but by praising God for them. As in our purposes, so in our desires, we must remember to say, If the Lord will, James 4:15. Our j...
MAKING REQUEST; this was one thing he requested of God, that what he had long desired and designed might happily (if it seemed good in God's sight) be at last accomplished, that he might come in perso...
making request, if by any means now at length I may be prospered by the will of God to come unto you. [Since he could call no other witness as to the substance or contents of his secret prayers, he re...
Romans 1:10 request G1189 (G5740) means G1513 now G2235 last G4218 way G2137 (G5701) in G1722 will...
PAUL EXPLAINS TO THE ROMAN CHRISTIANS HIS DESIRE TO SEE THEM AND THE REASON FOR IT (1:8-12). Paul stresses to the Roman Christians that he thanks God for the effectiveness of their testimony and uncea...
‘Making request, if by any means now at length I may at some time be prospered by the will of God to come to you.' And his continuing request to God is with a view to at last being able to visit them...
Romans 1:10. MAKING REQUEST. How unceasingly he remembers them is evident from this constant petition, the purport of which is next expressed. IF HAPLY, etc. Instead of saying, ‘that I may come,' th...
_Introduction_, _Giving the Occasion of the Epistle_. After the full and formal address and greeting, the Apostle, as usual, begins with thanksgiving on behalf of the Christians addressed. (In Galatia...
IF BY ANY MEANS NOW AT LENGTH (ε πως ηδη ποτε). A condition of the first class in the form of an indirect question (aim) or elliptical condition like Acts 27:12 (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 1024). Not...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures.)_ Paul had not seen the R...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,_ Paul has many titles, and he delights to mention them in writing to these Christians at Rome....
CONTENTS: Words of comfort to the church at Rome. The universe a revelation of the power and deity of God. The deplorable condition of a lost world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul. CONCLUSION: God has...
Romans 1:1. _Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ,_ in the sense he himself illustrates to the Corinthians. Ye are not your own; ye are bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your s...
FIRST, I THANK MY GOD. Paul made it a habit to thank God through Jesus Christ for each and every believer. Here he directs these words to the Christians at Rome to show his deep interest in their spir...
_First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all._ TRUE CHRISTIAN ZEAL I. As it respects God is-- 1. Thankful. 2. Sincere. 3. Constant. 4. Prayerful. 5. Dependent (Romans 1:8). II. As i...
_Making request, if by any means … I might have a prosperous journey._ PROSPEROUS JOURNEY What is necessary to render a journey, or a voyage, prosperous in the estimation of a real Christian? Is he s...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 1:1 The Gospel as the Revelation of God’s Righteousness. This first section includes Paul’s opening greeting (vv. Romans 1:1), thanksgiving (vv....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 1:8. YOUR FAITH IS SPOKEN OF, ETC.—Rome frequented by strangers, and so the faith of the Church easily made known. κόσμω, the beautiful order of the visible world. Romans 1:10...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 1:1 I. INTRODUCTORY. ROMANS 1:1 A. _Salutation_ with long interposed parenthesis, suggested by "gospel of God." The parenthesis, expressing thoughts of which the writer's mind is...
This time let us turn in our Bibles to Romans, chapter 1. Paul opens his epistle to the Romans declaring: Paul, a bond slave of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God...
1 Corinthians 4:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:18; 1 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 3:11;...
I might have a prosperous journey [ε υ ο δ ω θ η σ ο μ α ι]. Rev., I may be prospered. The A. V. brings out the etymological force of the word. See on 3 John 1:2....
THE GOSPEL OF GOD Romans 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The opening statement of the first chapter of Romans gives us sufficient basis for our introductory word. The statement reads thus: "Paul, a SERVANT...