“For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God’s will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.” -Romans 1:9–10
Paul here makes a solemn affirmation of the truth, literally an oath, of two things to which only God has knowledge. The first …
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