Romans Chapter 15 verse 28 Holy Bible
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by you unto Spain.
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So when I have done this, and have given them this fruit of love, I will go on by you into Spain.
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Having finished this therefore, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will set off by you into Spain.
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When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.
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When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
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This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 28, 29. - When therefore I have accomplished this, and sealed to them (i.e. ratified and assured to them) this fruit, I will come away by you into Spain. And I know that when I come to you (ὑμᾶς here is intended emphatically) I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ. How different from his anticipations were the circumstances of his first visit to Rome we know from the Acts. So man proposes, but God disposes, and all for final good (cf. Philippians 1:12, seq.). That he afterwards carried out his intention of visiting Spain cannot be alleged with certainty, though there is distinct evidence of an early tradition that he did so (Canon Muratori, Eusebius, Jerome, Theodoret. Cf. Clem. Romans, Ep. 1, who speaks of St. Paul having gone to "the boundaries of the West"). Certainly before the end of his detention at Rome he had given up any idea he might have had of going thence at once to Spain; for cf. Philippians 2:19; Philemon 1:22; which Epistles are believed, on good grounds, to have been written during that detention. Still, he may have gone during the interval between his release and his final captivity at Rome, during which the pastoral Epistles were probably written. In what follows (vers. 30-32) some apprehension of dangers attending his visit to Jerusalem, which might possibly thwart his intentions, already appears; sounding like an undertone allaying the confidence of the hope previously expressed. In the course of his progress to Jerusalem this apprehension appears to have grown upon him; for see Acts 20:22, 23, 28; Acts 21:4, 11-14). It may be here observed that such signs, evidently unintentional, of conflicting feelings in the letter, and such consistency between the letter and the narrative, are strong confirmations of the genuineness of both.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) Sealed to them this fruit.--Placed in their hands the sum raised by the collection. This will appear at first sight a somewhat stilted expression, but it takes a certain solemnity from the fact that St. Paul seems to regard this journey to Jerusalem as the close of his own apostolic labours in those parts, the dropping of the curtain, as it were, before a new act in his career.Will come by you.--Will pass through your city on my way to Spain.
