It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.
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Gill's Exposition
It hath pleased them verily,.... This is repeated from the former verse, and is designed to point out the spring of this contribution, and the manner in which it was performed: it arose from…
Barnes' Notes
Their debtors - The reason he immediately states; compare Rom 1:14. Of their spiritual things - Have received the gospel by the instrumentality of those who had been Jews; and were admitted now to the…
Adam Clarke
For if the Gentiles have been made partakers, etc. - It was through and by means of the Jews that the Gentiles were brought to the knowledge of God and the Gospel of Christ. These were the spiritual…
St. Paul here declares his purpose to come and see the Christians at Rome. Upon this head his matter is but common and ordinary, appointing a visit to his friends; but the manner of his expression is…
Cambridge Bible
It hath pleased them verily Lit. For they were pleased; an exact repetition of the first words of Rom 15:26; a note of kindly irony. St Paul was far from thinking with realcoldness of these gifts of…
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