24Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.
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When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
And being brought on their way by the church, they passed through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles: and they caused great joy unto all the brethren.
After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.
Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-29)St. Paul here declares his purpose to come and see the Christians at Rome. Upon this head his matter is but common and ordinary, appointing a visit to his friends; but the manner of his expression is gracious and savoury, very instructive, and for our imitation. We should learn by it to speak of our common affairs in the language of Canaan. Even our common discourse should have an air of grace; by…
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