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The Epistle to the Romans, With Intr. and Notes by D. Brown
The Epistle to the Romans With Intr and Notes by D Brown Author:Paul General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1883 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. Title. -- In the most ancient manuscripts of the New Testament the Epistles of Paul are placed by themselves, under the general title of ' Epistles of Paul;' and each Epistle is headed simply by the name of the party addressed. Thus, 'To the Galatians' -- ' To the Romans.' CHAPTER I. 1-7. -- Address And Salutation. i TDAUL, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, Being personally a stranger to those he is about to address, the Epistle opens with a threefold account of the writer : -- He is a servant of Jesus Christ; he is a commissioned apostle ; and he has been separated to the service of the Gospel. 1. Paul. The Hebrew family name Saul was changed into the Roman form Paul probably at or about the time of his first missionary journey ; at least it is there first mentioned (Acts xiii. 9), and only twice after that does the name "Saul" appear -- where he himself is relating the never-to-be- forgotten words addressed to him on his way to Damascus : "Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ? " (Acts xxii. 7, and xxvi. 14, words which the historian, in his own narrative, scrupulously records, chap. ix. 4). Some very improbable conjectures have been indulged in as to the reasons for this change ; but since to Gentile ears the Hebrew name would almost spontaneously pass into the smoother Roman form, no further explanation seems necessary. a servant of Jesus Christ -- rather, " Christ Jesus," according to the oldest MSS. Both forms, indeed, are used by the apostle, but he seems to have preferred putting " Christ" first, because He was first revealed to him as " the Chri...« less