“I hope to see you in passing as I go to Spain, and to be helped on my journey there by you, once I have enjoyed your company for a while (Romans 15:24).
Whether or not you accept that Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, he evangelized Corinth and that area, and when you look at this map you can easily see Paul’s missions strategy. If he traveled to Rome, as we know he did, then he could hope to solidify the church in Rome and use this as an outpost to reach Spain.
Extended as they were, the boundaries of the Roman Empire would then make it possible for the Gospel to burn throughout the known world.
*I added the red stars and labels to this map. Otherwise, it is a scan of a page from the Hammond Atlas of the Bible, the current edition is shown below.
See also, The Miracle that Was Paul
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