St. Paul's
Epistle to the Romans

A Practical Exposition

BY THE

RIGHT REV. CHARLES GORE, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER

VOL. I
(CHAPTERS I-VIII)

LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1902

FIRST EDITION . February, 1899.
Reprinted . . . . . March, 1900.
Reprinted . . . September, 1900.
Reprinted . . . . October, 1902.

OXFORD
HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

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PREFACE

A good excuse is needed for adding to the large number of excellentcommentaries on the Epistle to the Romans which already exist. But Ithink there is such an excuse. These commentaries are not of the sortwhich readers who are educated but not scholarly find it easy tomaster; so that in fact this epistle is at the present day very muchmisunderstood or ignored by such people. And again, partly owing toits interpretation at the period of the Reformation and by someEvangelicals of later date, it is still practically to a great extentviewed with discomfort and neglected by those who most value the nameof Catholic. My excuse, then, for adding to the expositions of theRomans lies in these facts. One who is necessarily immersed in thepractical work of the Christian ministry, and is yet struggling to keephimself in some sense in line with biblical scholarship, if his lifeinvolves special disadvantages, may yet hope to be useful ininterpreting to ordinary Christians{vi}the results of the scholars.And I am persuaded that it requires one who enters thoroughly into thespirit of churchmanship, or the obligation of the one body, tointerpret with any completeness the mind of St. Paul.

This volume has practically no more connexion with lectures deliveredin Westminster Abbey last Lent, than is implied in its being anexposition of the same epistle by the same person.

The method of exposition in this volume is the same as that pursued inits predecessor on the Epistle to the Ephesians. After a generalintroduction, each section of the Revised Version is taken, or in somecases two sections are taken together, and prefaced by an analysis orparaphrase, as seems most useful, and followed by further explanationof the main ideas or phrases which each section contains.

The 'appended notes' I have been obliged to defer to the end of thesecond volume—which, I hope, will appear within a year—with a view ofapproximately equalizing the size of the two volumes.

CHARLES GORE.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY,
    Conversion of St. Paul, 1899.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

                                                                  PAGEINTRODUCTION.     (i) Origin and circumstances of the epistle . . . .                         
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