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Hitherto he hath excused his manner of writing, now he makes an apology for his not coming unto them. They at Rome might be ready to say: If he had travelled into so many countries, why could he not all this while give us a visit? To this he answers, it was not from any want of respect or good will to them, but for another cause, which he had already assigned, and that was, the preaching of Christ where he had not been named; for this cause, he says, he had been much hindered: he looked upon that as the more necessary work; the planting of churches is more than the watering of them. He told them, Romans 1:13, of his being hindered from coming to them, and now he acquaints them lnore particularly with the reason, which he concealed before. The word (ta polla) rendered much, signifieth many; and it implies that he was many times hindered, and many ways; but this was the chief.