Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Romans 15:22 - 15:22

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Romans 15:22 - 15:22


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22–29. διὸ καὶ κ.τ.λ. This work has detained him; but its completion leaves him free to fulfil his long cherished purpose, as soon as a special mission, in the interests of his work, has been fulfilled at Jerusalem. His visit to Rome has for its object a journey to Spain, for which he wishes to enlist their sympathy and support. The complication of motives and purposes here as so often leads to incomplete and involved sentences. The hesitancy of expression is partly due to his delicacy; he will not seem either to have neglected the Church in Rome, or to force himself upon them. So he explains his delay and in the same breath his reason for coming, as an appeal for their help in his work.

διὸ καὶ = this was just the reason why I was so constantly being hindered from etc.

ἐνεκοπτόμην. Cf. 1Th 2:18; 1Co 9:12 (subst.); (Polyb. 24. 1. 12 lect. dub.); cf. Witkowski, Ep. Priv. 24 ἡμῖν ἐνκόπτεις καλά ‘you are hindering us finely.’ No class, instance is quoted for this meaning. N. imperfect, ‘I was constantly being hindered.’

τὰ πολλὰ. Adverb, accus. (= πολλὰκις) akin to the accus. of the inner object; cf. Blass, p. 94.

τοῦ ἐλθεῖν. cf. Blass, p. 235: more commonly the pleonastic negative is inserted after verbs of hindering.