The Apostle, when brought to Rome, declares (upon the manifestation of unbelief among the Jews,...) that the salvation of God is sent to the Gentiles; and he dwells two whole years in the house he hired, receiving those who came to him (for he had not liberty to go to them), preaching the kingdom of God and those things which concerned the Lord Jesus with all boldness, no man forbidding him.
And here the history is ended of this precious servant of God, beloved and honored by his Master, a prisoner in that Rome which, as head of the fourth empire, was to be the seat of opposition among the Gentiles, as Jerusalem was among the Jews, to the kingdom and to the glory of Christ. The time for the full manifestation of that opposition was not yet come, but the minister of the assembly and of the gospel of glory is a prisoner there. It is thus that Rome begins its history in connection with the gospel that the Apostle preached. Nevertheless, God was with him.