I. 1-7 SALUTATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 8-17 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 DIVISION I _Universality of sin and condemnation_ . . . . . . . 63 18-32 § 1 Judgement on the Gentile world . . . . . . . . 66 II. § 2 Judgement on the Jews . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 III. 1-8 § 3 Jewish objections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 9-20 § 4 Sin and condemnation universal . . . . . . . . 121 DIVISION II _Justification by faith only_. 21-31 § 1 Christ our propitiation . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 IV. § 2 The true seed of Abraham . . . . . . . . . . . 155 {viii} DIVISION III _The accepted life or the moral consequences of justification_. V. 1-11 § 1 The holy confidence of the justified . . . . . 175 12-21 § 2 The second Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 VI. 1-14 § 3 The Christian life a living by dying . . . . . 204 15-23 § 4 The perfect freedom in God's service . . . . . 225 VII. 1-6 § 5 Freedom from the law by union with Christ . . 236 7-25 § 6 The function and failure of the law . . . . . 245 VIII. 1-11 § 7 Life in the Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 12-17 § 8 The life of sonship . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 18-30 § 9 The hope of the creation . . . . . . . . . . . 298 31-39 § 10 Christian assurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 {1} THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS _Introduction._ i. St. Paul's great Epistle to the Romans was written, as may be quite confidently asserted, from Corinth, during the second visit to Greece recorded in the Acts[1], i.e. in the beginning of the year commonly reckoned 58, but perhaps more correctly 56 A.D.--the year following the writing of the Epistles to the Corinthians. The reasons for this confident statement, and indeed for all that needs to be said about the circumstances under which St. Paul wrote and the conditions of Christianity at Rome, become apparent chiefly in connexion with the later parts of the epistle which are not included in this volume. They {2} shall therefore be omitted here, and we will content ourselves for the moment with a very brief statement of the results in which scholars are now finding, as it would seem, final agreement.