The office of apostleship is explained here and enlarged on. Because of this he has been given the role of a minister. He was a minister of Christ, one that was made so by the lord Jesus Himself. Paul was immensely qualified and sent forth to minister in His name to men; and who was a preacher of Him; Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, was the grand subject of his ministry. Its focus was to the Gentiles. He did not exclude the Jews. But Paul was appointed a minister by Christ, and sent by Him to them. It was among them he chiefly ministered, and was particularly and eminently useful to them; and this is another reason why the Romans ought to realize Paul's usage of a little boldness and freedom in writing to them, since he was the apostle of the Gentiles: ministering the Gospel of God. His role was not in the service of the temple, nor the traditions of the elders, nor the law of Moses, nor the morality of the Heathens; but the Gospel, of which God is the author. It is different than what Jews or Gentiles knew and practiced for religion. God's grace is the subject, and whose glory is the whole reason for any ministry of the Gospel. Paul brings the good news from Him to the chief of sinners; to the preaching of which the apostle was separated by Him: that the offering up of the Gentiles; not the offering the Gentiles offered up, their prayers, praises, or good works, though these are acceptable to God through Christ; but the Gentiles themselves, by the offering up of whom is meant their conversion; which was the chief end of the apostle's ministering the Gospel among them.
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