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Romans 15:20
Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation;
Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation;
Verse 20. _SO HAVE I STRIVED TO PREACH THE GOSPEL_] ουτω δε φιλοτιμουμενον. For I have considered it my _honour_ to preach the Gospel where that Gospel was before unknown. This is the proper import o...
YEA, SO HAVE I STRIVED - The word used here φιλοτιμούμενον philotimoumenon means properly “to be ambitious, to be studious of honor;” and then to “desire” earnestly. In that sense it is used here. He...
CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The Example of Christ. (Romans 15:1 .)_ 2. The Ministry of Christ. (Romans 15:8 .) 3. Paul's Personal Ministry. (Romans 15:14 .)...
THE PRESENT JUNCTURE IN PAUL'S MINISTRY. Paul resumes the thread dropped at Romans 1:15. Romans 15:14. He does not think the Roman Christians in need of correction; he has written, however, and in par...
THE MARKS OF THE FELLOWSHIP (Romans 15:1-6)...
Brothers, I myself am quite sure that you, as you are, are full of goodness and replete with all knowledge and well able to give good advice to one another. I write to you with a certain amount of bol...
HAVE. STRIVED. earnestly endeavouring. Greek. _philotimeomai._ Only here; 2 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:11. PREACH, &C. See Romans 1:15. App-121. NAMED. (already) named,
_Yea, so have I strived_ Better, BUT JEALOUSLY STRIVING SO, &C. The "but" adds a qualifying additional fact; that his line and area of action were determined, in a measure, by his aim to work only in...
ΟὝΤΩΣ ΔῈ Κ.Τ.Λ. qualifying πεπληρωκέναι:= but always with the eager desire. ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΎΜΕΝΟΝ. This word is a good illustration of meaning determined by use, rather than by derivation. The primary (deriv...
The letter passes to personal matters (_a_) 14–21 a delicate apology and justification of the letter itself: it is not sent with a view to supplementing deficiencies of the Roman Christians, but partl...
ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΟΎΜΕΝΟΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΦΙΛΟΤΙΜΈΟΜΑΙ (G5389) гордиться оказанной честью, быть честолюбивым, стремиться (BAGD). ΕΎΑΓΓΕΛΊΖΕΣΘΑΙ _praes. inf. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G2097) п...
SO HAVE I LIVED TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, &C.— _So have I been ambitious,_ &c. The Apostle could not mean that he scorned to come after any other Christian minister, especially after what we read of his g...
_TEXT_ Romans 15:14-33. And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. Romans 15:15 But I wr...
Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: YEA, SO HAVE I STRIVED, [ houtoos (G3779) de (G1161) filotimoumenon (G538...
PAUL'S PREVIOUS MINISTRY 8 Contrast the two ministries of Christ and Paul (16). Christ was the Servant of the _ Circumcision_. Paul was a minister for the _ nations_. Christ confirms the patriarchal p...
JEW AND GENTILE ALIKE THE OBJECT OF GOD'S LOVE. THE APOSTLE'S PLANS 1-13. The subject of Romans 14 is continued. 'Strength' should be displayed in helping the 'weak' after Christ's example (Romans 15:...
RV 'yea, making it my aim, so to preach,' etc. LEST I SHOULD BUILD] cp. 2 Corinthians 10:12....
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 DO NOT TRY TO PLEASE YOURSELF 15:1-6 V1 Because we are strong, we should assist weak people. Our *faith is strong,...
YEA, SO HAVE I STRIVED. — Rather, _but making it my ambition._ The Apostle set it before him as a point of honour, not merely to carry forward a work that others had begun, but to build up the whole e...
Throughout all this long missionary career, the Apostle had made it his endeavour not merely to go over old ground where others had been before him, but to seek out new and virgin soil, where he might...
οὕτω δὲ φιλοτιμούμενον (1 Thessalonians 4:11; 2 Corinthians 5:9): making it my ambition, however, thus to preach the Gospel, etc. This limits πεπληρωκέναι : he had never sought to preach where Christi...
A PREACHER WHO FOUND HIS OWN FIELD Romans 15:14 A superficial judge of the Apostle's life at the time to which he refers might have supposed him to be a mere Jewish traveler, hurrying to and fro, und...
The most powerful argument for Christian conduct is the example of Christ. He pleased not Himself. The injunction to receive one another is an injunction addressed to Jews and Gentiles. Throughout the...
St. Paul does not mean to say, that he never preached where the gospel had before been announced; this would not have been true, for he preached at Damascus, where there were already Christians, whom...
“ _And that while making it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: but as it is written, They to whom nothing was said...
TWENTY-NINTH PASSAGE (15:14-33). PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS. This passage is intended to convey to the minds of his readers full light as to the apostle's conduct toward them. These explanations relate fi...
EPISTOLARY CONCLUSION. 15:14-16:27. WE have said that the Epistle to the Romans is a didactic treatise, doctrinal and practical, contained in a letter. The treatise is now closed, and the letter begin...
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another. (15) Nevertheless, brethren, I have written the mor...
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...
20._Thus striving to preach the gospel, etc. _As it was necessary for Paul not only to prove himself to be the servant of Christ and a pastor of the Christian Church, but also to show his title to the...
These instructions close the epistle. From Romans 15:8, it is the exordium, the personal circumstances of the apostle, and salutations. In Verses 8 to 12 (Romans 15:8-12), he sums up his thoughts resp...
YEA, SO HAVE I STRIVED TO PREACH THE GOSPEL,.... The sense is, not barely that he strove to preach the Gospel and not the law, the pure Gospel, and, not a mixed one; nor only that he endeavoured to pr...
Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man's foundation: Ver. 20. _Lest I should build_] Lest I should seem to do anything unbeseemi...
_Yea, so have I strived to preach_ Greek, ουτω δε φιλοτιμουμενον ευαγγελιζεσθαι, literally, _being ambitious;_ or, _it being the object of my ambition;_ namely, so far as Providence would permit me to...
NOT WHERE CHRIST WAS NAMED; his object was to preach the gospel to the destitute who had never before heard it. The ministers who go and preach the gospel to those that have never heard it, and who ar...
The subject of Romans 14:1 continues through verse 7 of Romans 15:1. We have seen first the Lord's authority in regard to men's consciences, then love toward our brethren a reason for considering thei...
Not where Christ was already known He did not want to build on another man's foundation. He laid foundations for others to build on. I have preached where others have labored before me. I have been...
YEA, MAKING IT MY AIM SO TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, NOT WHERE CHRIST WAS ALREADY NAMED, THAT. MIGHT NOT BUILD UPON ANOTHER MAN'S FOUNDATION; 'making it my aim' -this was Paul's ambition. His personal goa...
14-21 The apostle was persuaded that the Roman Christians were filled with a kind and affectionate spirit, as well as with knowledge. He had written to remind them of their duties and their dangers,...
Ver. 20,21. He gives a reason why he chose to preach the gospel in these places, because Christ had not been named or preached there before; this, he saith, was his ambition, and a thing that he great...
yea [yes, so full was the spiritual _power imparted to me that I thought it an honor and recognition due to my office and to those powers to use them only on the hard, unbroken soil of utterly unenlig...
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God. For I dare not to speak of any of those thi...
Romans 15:20 And G1161 so G3779 aim G5389 (G5740) gospel G2097 (G5733) not G3756 where G3699 Christ...
3). THE MINISTRY OF THE MESSIAH IS TO BOTH JEWS AND GENTILES (15:7-33). Paul now demonstrates that the Messiah has come in order to minister to both Jews and Gentiles, and that this has been in part a...
‘Yes, making it my aim so to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, that I might not build upon another man's foundation,' Paul declares that his missionary purpose was always to prea...
THE EXTENT AND FOCAL POINT OF PAUL'S OWN MINISTRY TO THE GENTILES (15:14-21). Paul sees his own ministry as an extension of the ministry of Christ, the Messiah (Romans 15:16). He has gone out in the N...
1. _Personal Explanations._ This section forms an ‘epilogue' (Meyer), corresponding in matter with the introductory paragraph; chap. Romans 1:8-15. The Apostle first expresses his confidence in the Ro...
Romans 15:20. YET MAKING IT MY AMBITION. The participle here used means, ‘to make it a point of honor,' but this exact sense need not be pressed here. SO TO PREACH THE GOSPEL, ‘to evangelize,' not th...
YEA (ουτως δε). "And so," introducing a limitation to the preceding statement.MAKING IT MY AIM (φιλοτιμουμενον). Present middle participle (accusative case agreeing with με) of φιλοτιμεομα, old ve...
Romans 15:13. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, tha...
CONTENTS: Jewish and Gentile believers under one salvation. Paul speaks of His ministry and coming journey. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Paul, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: The self-denial of our Lord...
Romans 15:4. _Whatsoever things were written afore-time,_ by Moses and the prophets concerning Christ, and the calling of the gentiles, were written in order to afford us the greatest comfort, by demo...
MY AMBITION. Paul had made it a point to begin new works in places where Christ was unknown. This was his special mission as an apostle. Yet there is a place and a need for a different kind of ministr...
_And I myself also am persuaded of you._ PAUL’S TESTIMONY TO THE CHURCH IN ROME I. Its substance. Fall of-- 1. Goodness. 2. Knowledge. 3. Sanctified ability. II. Its value. 1. Honest. 2. Inspi...
_I have strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build on another man’s foundation._ ST. PAUL’S METHOD OF PROCEDURE St. Paul “strived,” even made it a point of honour--...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 15:20 Paul’s aim was TO PREACH THE GOSPEL where no churches existed, fulfilling Isaiah 52:15....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 15:14 The Extension of God’s Righteousness through Paul’s Mission. Paul focuses on his calling as the apostle to the Gentiles, adding some greetings and final instructions....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 15:17.—The things of the ministry committed to Paul of God are the things in which he will glory. Romans 15:18.—St. Paul will not take any glory to himself. There is nothing...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 16:1 IV. SUPPLEMENTARY. Questions have been raised and much discussed as to the connection of the last two chapters, 15. and 16., with the rest of the Epistle. The facts and the o...
Shall we turn to the fifteenth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Romans. In the fourteenth chapter Paul was dealing with the subject of walking in love within the body of Christ. Recognizing that we ha...
1 Corinthians 3:9; 2 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 10:14; Ephesians 2:20...
Have I strived [φ ι λ ο τ ι μ ο υ μ ε ν ο ν]. The verb means originally to be fond of honor, and hence, from a love of honor, to strive, be ambitious. Compare 2 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 4:11....
Not where Christ had been named — These places he generally declined, though not altogether, having an holy ambition (so the Greek word means) to make the first proclamation of the gospel in places wh...