Verse 19
19. Through The sentence proceeds as if the previous verse affirmed what Paul had wrought.
We give the meaning in which commentators are so unanimous that we hardly dare specify a meaning spontaneously taken by our own mind from the words before reading a commentator. Let Romans 15:18 be read with a strong emphasis on not and the following meaning will arise: So great are the things wrought by Christ through me that I will scarce dare to say what he hath not wrought! And then no twist is required to make Romans 15:18-19 run uniform.
Signs As evidences of a supernatural Christianity.
Wonders To arouse the minds of the world.
So that As he has just given the might and power of his mission work, so now he traces its geographical extent. Jerusalem and round about Jerusalem. The English translators seem to understand by κυκλω , in circle, the sort of geographical curve described by the apostle’s missions from Jerusalem to Illyricum. It more probably means his first circuiting around the region of Jerusalem. (Acts 9:28.)
Unto Illyricum (See note on Acts 17:9.) Had the apostle prosecuted his westward career from Thessalonica he would have soon gone into Illyricum, which was the next province.
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