Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 15:18

18. For I will not dare to speak of any of those things, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient by word and deed .

q. d. I dare not speak of more then is true, or of any thing that was not really done by me: Or, else the meaning is, I dare not speak of any thing that I have done of my self, I acknowledg, that what ever good hath come to the Gentiles by my means, it was wrought by Christ whose Instrument I have only been, vid. 1 Cor. 3.5.

Some joyn these words to the obedience of the Gentiles, by the preaching of the Gospel they were made obedient in word and deed. But they are better joyned with the former words, Christ wrought in and by the Apostle Paul, both by word and deed. By word is understood his publick preaching, and private instruction; and by deed, the example of his good Works, or Godly Life: Or else by deed ye may understand the Miracles that he wrought, and the Labour and Travel that he underwent; of which in the following verse.

Marginal references: Or, towards the obedience of the Gentiles.; Chap. 1.5. & 16.26.