Romans 15:23

νυνὶ δὲ : but now the sentence thus begun is interrupted by ἐλπίζω γὰρ and never finished, for the words ἐλεύσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς in T.R. are an interpolation. μηκέτι τόπον ἔχων : not that every soul was converted, but that the Apostolic function of laying foundations had been sufficiently discharged over the area in question. κλίμα is only found in the plural in N.T. 2 Corinthians 11:10; Galatians 1:21. ἐπιπόθειαν : here only in N.T. ἀπὸ ἱκανῶν ἐτῶν : the desire dated “from a good many years back”. Cf. ἀπὸ κτίσεως κόσμου, Romans 1:20; Acts 15:7.