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Rom 1:15. Οὕτω, so), therefore. It is a sort of epiphonema [exclamation, which follows a train of reasoning], and a conclusion drawn from the whole to an important part.-τὸ κατʼ ἐμὲ), that is, so far as depends on me, or I for my part, so far as I am not prevented; so Ezr 6:11, καὶ ὁ οἶκος αὐτο͂υ τὸ κατʼ ἐμὲ ποιηθήσεται, and his house, so far as it depends upon me, shall be made [a dunghill].-πξόθυμον, ready) supply there is [readiness in me; I am ready]. 3Ma 5:23, (26.)-τὸ προθυμοι τοῦ βασιλέως ἐν ἑτοίμῳ κεῖσθαι, [the readiness of the king to continue in a state of preparation]-ἐν Ῥώμῃ, at Rome), to the wise.-Comp. the preceding verse; to the powerful.-Comp. the following verse and 1Co 1:24; therefore the following expression, at Rome, is emphatically repeated.-(See Rom 1:7.) Rome, the capital and theatre of the whole world-εὐαγγελίσασθαι, to preach the Gospel) The Statement of the Subject of the epistle is secretly implied here; I will write, what I would wish to have spoken in your presence concerning the Gospel.