Romans 1:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

That is, that I may be comforted— St. Paul, in the former verse, had said, that he desired to come among them, to establish them. In these words that is, he explains, or as it were recals, what he had said, that he might not seem to think them not sufficiently instructed or established in the faith; and therefore he turns the end of his coming to them, to their mutual rejoicing in one another's faith, when he and they should come to see and know each other. This thought, so full of respect to his Christian friends at Rome, is suggested with great delicacy and address; and it is reasonable to suppose that every new instance, in which miraculous gifts were communicated by the laying on of hands of any of the apostles, would be a source of new edification and comfort to these holy men, as being so evident a token of the divine presence with them, and a new and solemn seal set to the commission which they had received. This verse would be more properly translated, That is, that while I am among you, we may be comforted together by the mutual faith, &c. See Locke, Doddridge, Calmet, and Beausobre and Lenfant.