Romans 15:28. when therefore, etc. Reverting to the hope expressed in Romans 15:24.

Have sealed to them this fruit. Secured to them as their property the ‘fruit,' the produce, of this contribution. Some take ‘sealed' in a literal sense, but this seems out of keeping with the tone of the passage. The Apostle is moved by the thought that with the close of the work of love to which he refers he was to finish his great and long labors in the East, and was to take in hand a new field in the far West. In these circumstances an unusual thoughtful expression for the concluding act offers itself naturally (Meyer).

I will proceed by you unto Spain. The full idea of the original is: I will depart (or, return) from Jerusalem, pass through your city, and go unto Spain. From Spain the way was discovered, after many centuries, to a farther West.

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