Romans 1:10

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 prayers, refer certainly to the following participle: making request, and not to what precedes, a sense which would lead to a pleonasm. Not one of the intimate dealings of the apostle with his God, in which this subject does not find a place. ᾿Επί, strictly speaking, on occasion of. The conjunction εἴπως, if perhaps, indicates the calculation of chances; and the adverbs now, at length, the sort of impatience which he puts into his calculation. The term εὐοδοῦν strictly signifies: to cause one to journey prosperously, whence in general: to make one succeed in a business; comp. 1 Corinthians 16:2. As in this context the subject in question is precisely the success of a journey, it is difficult not to see in the choice of the term an allusion to its strict meaning: “if at length I shall not be guided prosperously in my journey to you.” By whom? The words: by the will of God, tell us; favorable circumstances are the work of that all-powerful hand. Romans 1:11-12 indicate the most immediate motive of this ardent desire.