<p>1:14 <i>I am debtor- </i>Paul had a debt to preach to all men. But a debt implies he had been given something; and it was not from &ldquo;all men&rdquo;, but rather from Christ. Because the Lord gave us the riches of His self-sacrifice, we thereby are indebted&nbsp;<i>to Him</i>; and yet this debt has been transmuted into a debt to preach to all humanity. Reflection upon His cross should elicit in us too an upwelling of pure gratitude towards Him, a Christ-centeredness, an awkwardness as we realise that this Man loved us more than we love Him... and yet within our sense of debt to Him, of ineffable, unpayable debt, of real debt, a debt infinite and never to be forgotten, we will have the basis for personal response to Him as a person, to a knowing of Him and a loving of Him, and a serving of Him in response. If we feel and know this, we cannot&nbsp;but preach the cross of Christ.&nbsp; In Rom. 1:14 Paul speaks of his &ldquo;debt&rdquo; to preach to both &ldquo;Greeks and Barbarians&rdquo; as the reason for his planned trip to Rome- for in that city there was the widest collection of &ldquo;Greeks and Barbarians&rdquo;. And yet he later speaks of our &lsquo;debt&rsquo; Gk. to love one another (Rom. 13:8). The debt of love that we feel on reflecting upon our unpayable debt to the Father and Son is partly an unending &lsquo;debt&rsquo; to loving share the Gospel of grace with others, to forgive the &lsquo;debts&rsquo; of others&rsquo; sins against us. We have a debt to preach to the world; we are their debtors, and yet this isn't how we often see it (Rom. 1:14). Time and again we commit sins of omission here.</p><p><i>Both to Greeks and Barbarians</i>- Paul felt a debt to preach to them, the total savages from his perspective. And so on the way to Rome, God arranged for him to be shipwrecked on Malta, and thus meet and convert such Barbarians- for the word occurs only four other times in the NT and two of them are in describing the people whom Paul met on Malta (Acts 28:2,4). See on Rom. 1:10.</p><p><i>Both to the wise and to the foolish</i>- the Greek word is elsewhere always translated &ldquo;fools&rdquo; in the AV, and has the idea of stupidity, foolishness. Paul the intellectual felt a debt to preach to those who would have exasperated and irritated him in normal life.</p>