So, as much as in me is, I am ready
This explains what he was a debtor to one and another for,
namely,
to preach the Gospel;
expresses the readiness of his mind to that work, whatever
difficulties lay in his way; and declares what a willing mind he
had to preach it also to the Romans, as elsewhere:
to you that are at Rome also;
the metropolis of the Roman empire, a very public place, the seat
of Satan, and where was the heat of persecution.