whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 24. It is a matter of dispute, whether Saint Paul ever executed this his design of visiting Spain. The proofs of the Spaniards, who consider it as certain, are by no means unanswerable. There remain no certain monuments of this journey of his. The proof taken from the words of S. Clement, who lived at Rome in the time of Saint Paul, is not certain, since he only says, that Saint Paul came to the very extremities of the west. It is a subject on which commentators appear pretty equally divided. Calmet.—There is an old tradition that Saint Paul, in his journey to Spain, left three of his disciples in Gaul; Trophimus at Arles, Crescentius at Vienne, and Paul at Narbonne; but this very tradition is disputed. V.