“So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.”
That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are at Rome. Paul's eagerness to preach to Rome arises from both his apostolic obligation and his conviction that the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Rome's significance as the empire's capital makes it a strategic and symbolic location for the proclamation of Christ's lordship over all nations and powers.
Church Fathers on Romans 1:15
“So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.” Oh, noble soul! Having taken on him a task laden of so great dangers, a voyage across the sea, temptations, plottings, risings — for it was likely, that one who was going to address so great a city which was under the tyrannic sway of impiety, should undergo temptations thick as snowflakes; and it was in this way that he lost his life in this city, being cut off by the tyrant of it — yet…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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