THE EPISTLE OF ST PAUL TO THE ROMANS
Reading edition
BY
HANDLEY C. G. MOULE, M.A.,
PRINCIPAL OF RIDLEY HALL, CAMBRIDGE
London
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
27, PATERNOSTER ROW
MDCCCXCIV
Printed by Hazell, Watson & Vincy, 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.