Transcriber's Note. Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained. Small capitals have been rendered as full capitals, while italics are indicated by _underscores_. Bold font, in which the author's own translation of the Epistle has been printed, is indicated by =equal signs=. These last signs also extend over Greek or Hebrew that the author has inserted in the translation, and markers for footnotes to it. Sidenotes mark individual verses of the Epistle. These have been inserted in the text before the start of each verse. A list of the 'Expositor's Bible' series has been shifted to the end of the book. THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE EDITED BY THE REV. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D. _Editor of "The Expositor," etc._ THE EPISTLE OF ST PAUL TO THE ROMANS BY HANDLEY C. G. MOULE, M.A., PRINCIPAL OF RIDLEY HALL, CAMBRIDGE LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27, PATERNOSTER ROW MDCCCXCIV _Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury._ TO THE REV. ROBERT SINKER, D.D., LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, MY FRIEND OF THIRTY-TWO YEARS, TO WHOSE KINDNESS AND KNOWLEDGE I AM DEEPLY AND INCREASINGLY INDEBTED, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. H. C. G. M. Hearing read, as I do continually, the Epistles of the blessed Paul ... I delight in the enjoyment of his spiritual trumpet, and my heart leaps up, and my longings set me glowing, as I recognize the voice so dear to me, and seem to image the speaker all but present to me, and to see him in discourse. But I mourn and am distressed, because all do not know this man as they should know him.... It is from hence our myriad evils spring--from our ignorance of the Scriptures. Hence grows this epidemic of our heresies; hence our neglected lives, hence our unfruitful toil. ST CHRYSOSTOM, _Preamble to Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans_. PREFACE He who attempts to expound the Epistle to the Romans, when his sacred task is over, is little disposed to speak about his Commentary; he is occupied rather with an ever deeper reverence and wonder over the Text which he has been permitted to handle, a Text so full of a marvellous man, above all so full of GOD. But it seems needful to say a few words about the style of the running Translation of the Epistle which will be found interwoven with this Exposition. The writer is aware that the translation is often rough and formless. His apology is that it has been done with a view not to a connected reading but to the explanation of details. A rough piece of rendering, which would be a misrepresentation in a continuous version, because it would be out of scale with the general style, seems to be another matter when it only calls the reader's attention to a particular point presented for study at the moment.