For to you I speak -- to the nations -- inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of nations, my ministration I do glorify;Romans 11:13 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThis and the following verse should be read in a parenthesis. St. Paul, as the apostle of the Gentiles, wished to show them the high pitch of glory and blessedness to which they had been called, that they might have a due sense of God's mercy in calling them to such a state of salvation; and that they might be jealous over themselves, lest they should fall as the Jews had done before them: and he dwells particularly on the greatness of those privileges which the Gentiles had now received, that he might stir up the minds of his countrymen to emulation, and might be the means of saving some of them, as he states in the following verse.
I magnify mine office - This is a very improper translation of την διακονιαν μου δοξαζω, which is, literally, I honor this my ministry. Dr. Taylor has justly observed that magnify, except when applied to the most High, carries with it, in our language, the idea of stretching beyond the bounds of truth; whereas the apostle simply means that he does justice to his ministry, by stating the glorious things which he was commissioned to preach among the Gentiles: blessings which the Jews by their obstinacy had forfeited.
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Romans 15:16-19 That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God...
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings...
Acts 13:2 As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said...
Acts 22:21 And he said to me, Depart: for I will send you far hence to the Gentiles.
Acts 26:17,18 Delivering you from the people, and from the Gentiles, to whom now I send you...
Galatians 1:16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
Galatians 2:2,7-9 And I went up by revelation, and communicated to them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles...
Ephesians 3:8 To me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given...
1 Timothy 2:7 Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ...
2 Timothy 1:11,12 Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles...
I magnify mine office. Rather, 'I honour my ministry,' [diakonia mou doxazo.]
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