Teks -- Romans 1:10 (NET)

1:10 and I always ask in my prayers, if perhaps now at last I may succeed in visiting you according to the will of God.

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Robertson: Rom 1:10 - If by any means now at length

If by any means now at length ( ei pōs ēdē pote ).

A condition of the first class in the form of an indirect question (aim) or elliptical condition like Act 27:12 (Robertson, Grammar , p. 1024). Note the four particles together to express Paul’ s feelings of emotion that now at length somehow it may really come true.

Robertson: Rom 1:10 - I may be prospered

I may be prospered ( euodōthēsomai ).

First future passive indicative of euodoō for which verb see note on 1Co 16:2.

Robertson: Rom 1:10 - By the will of God

By the will of God ( en tōi thelēmati tou theou ).

Paul’ s way lay "in"God’ s will.

Vincent: Rom 1:10 - I might have a prosperous journey

I might have a prosperous journey ( εὐοδωθήσομαι )

Rev., I may be prospered . The A.V. brings out the etymological force of the word. See on 3Jo 1:2.

Wesley: Rom 1:10 - Always

In all my solemn addresses to God.

Wesley: Rom 1:10 - If by any means now at length

This accumulation of particles declares the strength of his desire.

JFB: Rom 1:10 - Making request, if by any means now at length I may have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come to you

Though long anxious to visit the capital, he met with a number of providential hindrances (Rom 1:13; Rom 15:22; and see on Act 19:21; Act 23:11; Act 28:15); insomuch that nearly a quarter of a century elapsed, after his conversion, ere his desire was accomplished, and that only as "a prisoner of Jesus Christ." Thus taught that his whole future was in the hands of God, he makes it his continual prayer that at length the obstacles to a happy and prosperous meeting might be removed.

Clarke: Rom 1:10 - Making request, etc.

Making request, etc. - By this we see how earnestly the apostle longed to see Rome. It had long been a subject of continual prayer to God, that he might have a prosperous journey to, or rather meeting with, them, for so we should understand the word ευοδωθησμαι· that he had a prosperous meeting with them we cannot doubt; that he had a disastrous journey to them the 27th of the Acts fully proves.

Calvin: Rom 1:10 - NO PHRASE

10.=== Requesting, if by any means, === etc. As it is not probable that we from the heart study his benefit, whom we are not ready to assist by our labors, he now adds, after having said that he was anxious for their welfare, that he showed by another proof his love to them, as before God, even by requesting that he might be able to advance their interest. That you may, therefore, perceive the full meaning, read the words as though the word also were inserted, requesting also, if by any means, etc. By saying, A prosperous journey by the will of God he shows, not only that he looked to the Lord’s favor for success in his journey, but that he deemed his journey prosperous, if it was approved by the Lord. According to this model ought all our wishes to be formed.

TSK: Rom 1:10 - request // a prosperous // by the will

request : Rom 15:22-24, Rom 15:30-32; Phi 4:6; 1Th 2:18, 1Th 3:10,1Th 3:11; Phm 1:22; Heb 13:19

a prosperous : Act 19:21, 27:1-28:31

by the will : Act 18:21, Act 21:14; 1Co 4:19; Jam 4:15

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Poole: Rom 1:10 - Making request // By the will of God

Making request this was one thing he requested of God, that what he had long desired and designed might happily (if it seemed good in God’ s sight) be at last accomplished, that he might come in person to them. This desire of Paul to see the Romans might be one cause of that appeal which he made to Rome, Act 25:10,11 ,

By the will of God he adds this, because, in publishing the gospel, he followed the order which God, by his Spirit, prescribed him: see Act 16:7,9,10 .

Gill: Rom 1:10 - Making request, if by any means now at length // I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come unto you

Making request, if by any means now at length,.... A principal thing, which be incessantly and importunately requested at the throne of grace, was, that he might have an opportunity of coming to them; that God in his providence would open a way for him; and that he might have a safe and comfortable journey in a very little time; all which he submits to the will of God, as a good man ought to do; and which he thus expresses,

I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God, to come unto you; see Jam 4:13.