Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:24
24. Nothing less will do than a journey into Spain Says Lange upon the passage: “As ancient Spain embraced the whole Pyrenean peninsula, it undoubtedly has for the apostle the still further significance of a symbol of the whole West extending beyond Rome. To him Spain meant the Western world. But Spain itself was a proper object, because there the two preliminary conditions of missionary labour already existed Jews and Jewish synagogues, and Grecian and Roman civilization.” That his purpose... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 15:23-33
2. His long-hindered visit to Rome will be on his way to Spain , Romans 15:22-33 . 23. No… parts Corinth and southern Greece, where the apostle now was, had become old. Nay, by the whole east rumours of Christ had been heard. The apostle must look to the far West for virgin soil. read more