TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE INTRODUCTION. (i) Origin and circumstances of the epistle . . . . . . . . 1 (ii) 'Justification by works' or 'by faith' . . . . . . . . 6 (iii) Justification, sanctification, and Church membership . 25 (iv) St. Paul's doctrine and modern spiritual needs . . . . 41 THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. CHAPTER 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

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