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From Jerusalem to Illyricum

14 Now aI myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, bfilled with all knowledge, able also to admonish1 one another.  
15 Nevertheless, brethren, I have written more boldly to you on some points, as reminding you, abecause of the grace given to me by God,  
16 that aI might be a minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the boffering of the Gentiles might be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.  
17 Therefore I have reason to glory in Christ Jesus ain the things which pertain to God.  
18 For I will not dare to speak of any of those things awhich Christ has not accomplished through me, in word and deed, bto make the Gentiles obedient—  
19 ain mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God, so that from Jerusalem and round about to Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.  
20 And so I have made it my aim to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, alest I should build on another man’s foundation,  
21 but as it is written:
a“To whom He was not announced, they shall see;
And those who have not heard shall understand.”  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Romans 15:16

Ministering the Gospel of God - ̔ , Acting as a priest. Here is a plain allusion, says Dr. Whitby, to the Jewish sacrifices offered by the priest, and sanctified or made acceptable by the libamen offered with them; for he compares himself, in preaching the Gospel, to the priest performing his sacred functions - preparing his sacrifice to be offered. The Gentiles, converted by him and dedicated to the service of God, are his sacrifices and oblation. The Holy Spirit is the libamen poured upon this sacrifice, by which it was sanctified and rendered acceptable to God. The words of Isaiah, Isaiah 66:20, And they shall bring all your brethren for an Offering unto the Lord, out of all Nations, might have suggested the above idea to the mind of the apostle.


 
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