Romans 15:22
in Romans 15That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Wherefore also I was hindered these many times from coming to you:
KJV
For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.
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This verse in Romans 15
Commentary
11 notes on this versePaul was not hindered by Satan, as some think, but by the fact that he was too busy planting churches in places where nobody had ever preached the gospel before.
This site's exposition
often been hindered from coming to you
on Romans 15:22-24
The pioneer policy kept Paul from Rome. With no openings left in those regions and years of longing behind him, he can turn west. Rome is a stop on his road to Spain, a place to enjoy the church's company and be equipped for the next stage.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
Here Paul explains what he has already mentioned at the beginning of the epistle and excuses himself by saying that although he wanted to come to them, he was obliged to shut out the wicked teachings of the false apostles.… These false apostles would have …
"For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you." Observe again, how he makes the end of the like texture with the introduction. For while he was quite at the beginning of the Epistle, he said, "Oftentimes I purpose to come unto you, but was let hitherto." But here he gives the cause also by which he was let, and that not once, but twice even, aye, and many times. For as he says there, "oftentimes I purposed to come to you," so here too, "I have been much (or often) hindered from coming to you." Now it is a thing which proves a very strong desire, that he attempted it so often.
The Medieval Church2 voices
After excusing himself for the presumption which could have been ascribed to him for instructing and correcting the Romans, the Apostle now explains why he has postponed visiting them. In regard to this he does three things: first, he mentions a past hindrance; second, his …
At the beginning of this epistle he said: "I was hindered even until now" (Rom. 1:13), and here he presents the very reason that hindered him from coming to them. I, he says, went everywhere preaching, and therefore encountered many hindrances, that is, I often …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
For which cause also,....
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The Nineteenth Century4 voices
For which cause, etc. - My considering it a point of honor to build on no other man’s foundation; and, finding that the Gospel has been long ago planted at Rome, I have been prevented from going thither, purposing rather to spend my time and strength in preaching where Christ has not, as yet, been proclaimed.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
For I will not dare to speak of any--"to speak aught" of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me--a modest, though somewhat obscure form of expression, meaning, "I will not dare to go beyond what Christ hath wrought by me"--in which form accordingly the rest of the passage is expressed.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
(See on Ro 1:9-11.) 23, 24. But now having no more place--"no longer having place"--that is, unbroken ground, where Christ has not been preached. and having a great desire--"a longing" these many years to come unto you--(as before, see on Ro 1:9-11).
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
For which cause - I have been so entirely occupied in this leading purpose of my life, that I have not been able to come to you. Much hindered - Many ways; not many times. I had so frequent and urgent demands on my time elsewhere, that I could not come to you. From coming to you - Where the gospel “has been” preached. I have desired to come, but have been unable to leave the vast region where I might preach the gospel to those who had never heard it.
The words behind it
9 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| διὸ | dio | Therefore | G1352 → | 53 times |
| καὶ | kai | also | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| ἐνεκοπτόμην | enekoptomen | I was being hindered | G1465 → | |
| τὰ | ta | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| πολλὰ | polla | many [times] | G4183 → | 367 times |
| τοῦ | tou | <the> | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἐλθεῖν | elthein | to come | G2064 → | 628 times |
| πρὸς | pros | to | G4314 → | 700 times |
| ὑμᾶς, | humas | you, | G4771 → | 2973 times |
διὸTherefore
dioG1352 →53 times
καὶalso
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ἐνεκοπτόμηνI was being hindered
enekoptomenG1465 →
τὰ<the>
taG3588 →19766 times
πολλὰmany [times]
pollaG4183 →367 times
τοῦ<the>
touG3588 →19766 times
ἐλθεῖνto come
eltheinG2064 →628 times
πρὸςto
prosG4314 →700 times
ὑμᾶς,you,
humasG4771 →2973 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Romans 1:13I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, how often I planned to come to you (but have been prevented from visiting until now), in order that I might have a harvest among…
it leads to
- Acts 19:21
After these things had happened, Paul resolved in the Spirit to go to Jerusalem after he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia. “After I have been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as…
- Philippians 4:17
Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.
- 2 Timothy 4:17
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of…
- 1 Thessalonians 2:18
For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13
Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
- Acts 19:21
Where this verse is studied
About Romans
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Ambrosiaster, COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES; Frederic Godet, Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on Romans 29; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Origen of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS; Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Romans; Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Romans and William Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen.