That I should be (εις το εινα με). The εις το idiom with the infinitive again (verses 8,13).

Minister (λει…

The minister, (leitourgon). This is not the word that is commonly translated minister, (diakonos). This word is…

Minister . . . ministering.—These are two different words in the Greek, but re…

Fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. And I myself also am persuaded …

Consecrating the gospel, etc. I prefer this rendering to the one Erasmus first adopts, which is, “Administering”; for it is quite certain …

That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ
The office of apostleship is here amplified and enlarged on, and the e…

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 r…

1. After instructing the Romans with general admonitions, the Apostle now begins to write about certain familiar matters to them.

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