I am a debtor— As the Gospel was committed to his trust, he was a trustee, and so a debtor to dispense it freely to all, as he should have opportunity, 1 Timothy 1:11. 1 Thessalonians 2:4. St. Paul includes the Romans under the term Greeks; for the Jews called all foreigners Greeks or Gentiles, as the Greeks and Romans called all foreigners barbarians; so that this division comprises all nations. The last clause should be rendered, both to the learned and the ignorant; for as the original word σοφοι often signifies learned (see 1 Corinthians 1:20; 1 Corinthians 1:31.); consequently the other, ανοητοι, must signify ignorant, or those whose understandings had not been improved by cultivation. See Bengelius, and Beausobre and Lenfant.
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Romans 1:14
14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.