Romans 15:15

Verse 15. Nevertheless. Notwithstanding my full persuasion of your knowledge, and your purpose to do right. Perhaps he refers also to the fact that he was a stranger to them. The more boldly. More boldly than might have been expected from a stranger. The reason why he showed this boldness in declaring his sentiments he immediately states--that he had been specially called to the office of instructing the Gentiles. In some sort, (apo merouv). In part. Some have supposed that he referred to a party at Rome--the Gentile party. (Whitby.) Some refer it to different parts of his epistle--on some subjects. (Stuart.) Probably the expression is designed to qualify the phrase more boldly.