List of Contributors to Volume IX. REV. J. MORDAUNT BARNARD, M.A. REV. W. EMERY BARNES, D.D. VERNON BARTLET, M.A. REV. PROFESSOR W. H. BENNETT, M.A. REV. ARMSTRONG BLACK. F. C. BURKITT, M.A. WILLIAM CANTON. REV. ARTHUR CARR, M.A. REV. PROFESSOR T. K. CHEYNE, D.D. REV. M. KAUFMANN, M.A. REV. ANGUS M. MACKAY, M.A. PROFESSOR W. M. RAMSAY, D.C.L., LL.D. PROFESSOR GEORGE L. ROBINSON, Ph.D. REV. CANON ARMITAGE ROBINSON, D.D. REV. T. G. SELBY. GEORGE AUGUSTUS SIMCOX, M.A. REV. JOHN WATSON, D.D. STUDIES IN THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. SOCRATES relates of Eunomius that he composed a commentary on the Epistle to the Romans in seven books, but, though he spent many words, failed to seize the gist of the Epistle." Many words have been spent by better men since then upon the same task, and if complete success has not even yet been obtained, the gist of the Epistle is perhaps clearer now than it was. The following papers will attempt to focus some results of the process upon such vital elements of the problem as seem as yet incompletely solved. Their aim will be to grasp a few determining conceptions, the result of years of thought upon the Epistle, round its leading difficulties; and where questions not ripe for an answer arise, at any rate to attempt a statement of the exact problem involved. I. To sift preliminary questions such as are dealt with in 'Introductions" is outside my present purpose.1 The questions, who? when? where? to whom? why? what? open up, in reference to our Epistle, exceptionally wide. fields of inquiry. I lay down, therefore, in order to define my position on introductory questions, that this Epistle forms the last of the second or controversial group of St. Paul's Epistles, 1 Where many good Introductions exist, it may suffice, without invidious exclusiveness, to name those prefixed to the two best commentaries in English -perhaps in any language-namely, that of Dr. Gifford, and the recent admirably complete one by Dr. Sanday and Mr. Headlam. JANUARY, 1899 1 VOL. IX. 253711 |