19. By the ko'ach of otot u'moftim (signs and wonders), by the power of the Ruach Hakodesh; so that from Yerushalayim in a sweep round to Illyricum [T.N. today's Yugoslavia and Albania], I have completed the Besuras HaGeulah Hashem,
20. Thus making it my hasagos (aspiration) to preach the Besuras HaGeulah where Moshiach has not been named, lest I build on another's yesod (foundation).
21. But, as it is written, "Those who had not been told about Him will see, and those who had not heard shall understand" [Isa 52:15].
22. For this reason I have also regularly been prevented from coming to you.
23. But now, als (since) I no longer have scope in these regions and have had a tshuka (longing) to come to you for many years,