Towards the close of one of my nights of suffering, at half-past four, I asked my kind watcher ... to read me a chapter of the Word of God. He proposed the eighth of the Epistle to the Romans. I assented, but with the request that, to secure the connexion of ideas, he would go back to the sixth, and even to the fifth. We read in succession the four chapters, v., vi., vii., viii., and I thought no more of sleep.... Then we read the ninth, and the remaining passages, to the end, with an interest always equal and sustained; and then the first four, that nothing might be lost. About two hours had passed.... I cannot tell you how I was struck, in thus reading the Epistle as a whole, with the seal of divinity, of truth, of holiness, of love, and of power, which is impressed on every page, on every word. We felt, my young friend and I, ... that we were listening to a voice from heaven. A. MONOD, _Adieux_, § V., _Quelques Mots sur la Lecture de la Bible_. CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I TIME, PLACE, AND OCCASION 1 CHAPTER II THE WRITER AND HIS READERS 10 ROMANS i. 1-7 CHAPTER III GOOD REPORT OF THE ROMAN CHURCH: PAUL NOT ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL 23 ROMANS i. 8-17 CHAPTER IV NEED FOR THE GOSPEL: GOD'S ANGER AND MAN'S SIN 38 ROMANS i. 18-23 CHAPTER V MAN GIVEN UP TO HIS OWN WAY: THE HEATHEN 48 ROMANS i. 24-32 CHAPTER VI HUMAN GUILT UNIVERSAL: HE APPROACHES THE CONSCIENCE OF THE JEW 56 ROMANS ii. 1-16 CHAPTER VII JEWISH RESPONSIBILITY AND GUILT 67 ROMANS ii. 17-29 CHAPTER VIII JEWISH CLAIMS: NO HOPE IN HUMAN MERIT 78 ROMANS iii. 1-20 CHAPTER IX THE ONE WAY OF DIVINE ACCEPTANCE 90 ROMANS iii. 21-31 DETACHED NOTE 100 CHAPTER X ABRAHAM AND DAVID 103 ROMANS iv. 1-12 DETACHED NOTE 115 CHAPTER XI ABRAHAM (ii.) 117 ROMANS iv. 13-25 CHAPTER XII PEACE, LOVE, AND JOY FOR THE JUSTIFIED 128 ROMANS v. 1-11 DETACHED NOTES 140 CHAPTER XIII CHRIST AND ADAM 143 ROMANS v. 12-21 CHAPTER XIV JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS 156 ROMANS vi. 1-13 CHAPTER XV JUSTIFICATION AND HOLINESS: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM HUMAN LIFE 170 ROMANS vi. 14--vii. 6