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Romans 1:12

Romans 1:12

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

That is, that I with you may be comforted in you, each of us by each other's faith, yours and mine. The spirit of delicate courtesy here evinced, in addressing persons over whom one loss of a Christian gentleman than St.

Paul was might have assumed a lordly tone, is apparent elsewhere in his Epistles (cf. ; ; 2 Corinthians 2:3; 2 Corinthians 3:1, seq.; 2 Corinthians 8:8; 2 Corinthians 9:2), and especially the whole Epistle to Philemon.

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