“Yea, so have I strived to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I should build upon another man’s foundation:”
It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation. — Philotimeomai (to love honor, strive zealously) to euangelizesthai (to proclaim the gospel) where Christos ou ōnomatisthē (Christ was not named, not known). Hina mē (so that not) ep' allotriō themelió (upon another's foundation) oikodomeō (build). Paul's pioneer strategy: reach unreached territories.
Church Fathers on Romans 15:20
“Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named.” See here another preeminence; that he had not only preached the Gospel to so many, and persuaded them, but he did not even go to those who had become disciples. So far was he from thrusting himself upon other men's disciples, and from doing this for glory's sake, that he even made it a point to teach those who had not heard. For neither does he say where they were not persuaded, but “where Christ was…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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