The controversy about the much-discussed series of greetings in Rom. xvi. is disposed of by attaching this to the shorter epistle, which is held to have been written between the first and second imprisonment. It is true this solution can only find favour with those who have made up their minds to take upon them the burdensome hypothesis of the second imprisonment along with the complete or partial acceptance of the genuineness of the Pastoral epistles. In working them up, the redactor is supposed to have followed the method of bringing in the arguments of the second letter in those places in the first where they seemed most appropriate. That he showed no remarkable address in this process is credited to him as a proof of his historical existence. Holtzmann has nothing very complimentary to say about the representatives of the dissection and interpolation criticism. In his New Testament Theology he reproaches them with “straining out the gnat,” and indulging in critical vivisection, instead of studying the [pg 150] currents and undercurrents of Jewish and Hellenistic thought which run side by side through Paul’s work, and so becoming cured of their mania. In connexion with this, it is, however, curious that he himself, when he was asked why he never lectured on the Epistle to the Romans, used to say that the composition of Romans was, in his opinion, too problematical for him to venture to deal with the Epistle, so long as he was not obliged to do so. [pg 151] VI THE POSITION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1899. _Paul Feine._ Das gesetzesfreie Evangelium des Paulus nach seinem Werdegange dargestellt. (Paul’s Gospel of Freedom from the Law: a Study of its Growth.) _Paul Wernle._ Paulus als Heidenmissionar. (Paul as a Missionary to the Gentiles.) _Heinrich Weinel._ Paulus als kirchlicher Organisator. (Paul as a Church Organiser.) _Hermann Jakoby._ Neutestamentliche Ethik. (New Testament Ethics.) 1900. _Arthur Titius._ Der Paulinismus unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Seligkeit. (Paulinism with Special Reference to Final Salvation.) _A. Drescher._ Das Leben Jesu bei Paulus. (The Life of Jesus in Paul’s Writings.) _Karl Dick._ Der schriftstellerische Plural bei Paulus. (The Literary Use of the First Person Plural in Paul’s Writings.) _Adolf Harnack._ Das Wesen des Christentums. (Translated under the title “What is Christianity?”) 1901. _Paul Wernle._ Die Anfänge unserer Religion. (Translated under the title “The Beginnings of Christianity.”) 1902. _Otto Pfleiderer._ Das Urchristentum, seine Schriften und Lehren. (Primitive Christianity, its Documents and Doctrines.) Second, revised and extended edition. (Translated, 4 vols., London, 1906-1911.) _Paul Feine._ Jesus Christus und Paulus. _G. F. Heinrici._ Das Urchristentum. (Primitive Christianity.) 1903. _Georg Hollmann._ Urchristentum in Corinth. (Primitive Christianity in Corinth.)