Romans 15:14. Now I am persuaded, my brethren. This direct affectionate address indicates the return to more personal matters.

Even I myself, or, ‘I myself also,' The former implies: ‘even I, the one who has just admonished you, have this favorable conviction respecting you; the latter, ‘I of myself,' without the testimony of others, or, ‘I as well as others,' The second view accords with Romans 7:25, but the implied contrast in Romans 15:15 seems to favor the first.

Ye also yourselves; ‘without any exhortation of mine' (Alford).

Are full of goodness; moral excellence in general, though it may be specially applied to kindness.

Filled with all knowledge; Christian knowledge, moral as well as intellectual.

Able also to admonish one another; without assistance from without. This is a special result of the preceding qualities ascribed to them. It requires abundance of goodness as well as of knowledge to fit us for mutual admonition.

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