Romans 1:15
So (as much as is in me) I am ready to preach the gospel to you also that are at Rome.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- ita (quod in me) promptum est et vobis, qui Romæ estis, evangelizare.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- οὕτως τὸ κατʼ ἐμὲ πρόθυμον καὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς ἐν Ῥώμῃ εὐαγγελίσασθαι.
Haydock's commentary
St. Paul was even anxious to go and deliver the word to the Romans. Hence Mat. Polus, in his reflections on this verse, puts the following words into the mouth of the Apostle: Lucifuga non sum: ostendi id Antiochiæ, Athenis, Ephesi et Corinthi: paratus sum & in illa splendidissima urbe Roma ostendere.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine A Treatise on the Spirit and the Letter, Piety is Wisdom; That is Called the Righteousness of God, Which He Produces
Now, this meditation makes a man godly, and this godliness is true wisdom. By godliness I mean that which the Greeks designate θεοσέβεια, that very virtue which is commended to man in the passage of Job, where it is said to him, “Behold, godliness is wisdom.” Now if the word θεοσέβεια be interpreted according to its derivation, it might be called “ the worship of God ;” and in this worship the essential point is, that the soul be not ungrateful to Him. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, The Argument
But let no one consider this an undertaking beside the purpose, nor a search of this kind a piece of superfluous curiosity; for the date of the Epistles contributes no little to what we are looking after. For when I see him writing to the Romans and to the Colossians about the same subjects, and yet not in a like way about the same subjects; but to the former with much condescension, as when he says, “Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations; for one believeth that he may eat all things, another, herbs” ( Rom. xiv. …
St John Chrysostom The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Homily II on Rom. i. 8
Ver. 15 . “So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.” Oh, noble soul! having taken on him a task laden of so great dangers, a voyage across the sea, temptations, plottings, risings, for it was likely, that one who was going to address so great a city which was under the tyrannic sway of impiety, should undergo temptations thick as snowflakes; and it was in this way that he lost his life in this city, being cut off by the tyrant of it, yet still expecting to undergo so great troubles, for none of these did he become less energetic, but was in haste and was in travail and was ready-minded. Wherefore he says, “So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.”
St Athanasius Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life, Letter to Dracontius. Written A.D. 354 or 355
4. For if all were of the same mind as your present advisers, how would you have become a Christian, since there would be no bishops? Or if our successors are to inherit this state of mind, how will the Churches be able to hold together? Or do your advisers think that you have received nothing, that they despise it? If so surely they are wrong. For it is time for them to think that the grace of the Font is nothing, if some are found to despise it. But you have received it, beloved Dracontius; do not tolerate your advisers nor deceive yourself. For this will be required of you by the God who gave it. …