



Produced by Al Haines








_St. Paul's_

_Epistle to the Romans_


_A Practical Exposition_



BY CHARLES GORE, M.A., D.D.

  OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RESURRECTION
  CANON OF WESTMINSTER; CHAPLAIN TO THE KING



VOL. II

(CHAPTERS IX-XVI)



NEW IMPRESSION




LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET

1901




OXFORD

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY




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PREFACE

There would be no need for a preface to this second volume were it not
that a very kindly and careful review of the first volume in _The
Guardian_ of May 24 last, requires a word of notice.  The reviewer
warns me off 'the dialogue system of exegesis.'  Now no doubt this
principle, like every other, may be abused.  'The Jewish objector' may,
as the reviewer complains, be allowed to 'run riot.'  Still I cannot
doubt that the Jewish objector is a reality of an illuminative kind in
the argument of such passages as Romans iii. 1-8, or the great passage
(ix-xi), to which the first part of this volume is devoted.  Of the
other points of detail noticed by the reviewer--which a volume of this
kind is not the place to discuss--many are confessedly doubtful, and
some unimportant.  On most of {vi} them I am still disposed to retain
my former opinion, but I would, in accordance with my critic's wishes,
alter 'the actual life' (vol. i. p. 203) into 'the principle of life,'
and (p. 213) instead of saying that the principle of living by dying
'belongs only to a fallen world' say that 'it belongs, _as St. Paul
views it, though probably not in its ultimate law_, to a fallen world.'
I agree that in its deepest sense the principle appears to be an
ultimate law of all created life of which the conditions are known to
us.

C. G.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY,
  _Conversion of St. Paul_, 1900.




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TABLE OF CONTENTS


THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

                                                                 PAGE

DIVISION IV  _The theodicy or justification of God for His
             dealings with the Jews_..............    1

CHAPTER

   IX.  1-13 Sec. 1 The present rejection of Israelites no
                 breach of a divine promise ..........   14

       14-29 Sec. 2 God's liberty in showing mercy and judgement
                 always retained and asserted .........   31

     30-x.21 Sec. 3 Lack of faith the reason of Israel's rejection    44

   XI.  1-12 Sec. 4 God's judgement on Israel neither universal
                 nor final...................   59

       13-36 Sec. 5 God's present purpose for the Jews through
                 the Gentiles: and so for all humanity.....   68


DIVISION V _Practical exhortation_...............   95

  XII.   1-2 Sec. 1 Self-surrender in response to God.......   97

        3-21 Sec. 2 The community spirit .............  103

 XIII.   1-7 Sec. 3 The Christians and the imperial power.....  116

        8-10 Sec. 4 The summary debt ...............  127

       11-14 Sec. 5 The approach of the day............  133

  XIV.  1-23 Sec. 6 Mutual toleration...............  137

   XV.  1-13 Sec. 7 Unselfish forbearance and inclusiveness....  159



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DIVISION VI _Conclusion_....................  170

    XV. 4-33 Sec. 1 St. Paul's excuse for writing, and his hope
                 of coming...................  171

   XVI.  1-2 Sec. 2 A commendation ................  189

        3-16 Sec. 3 Personal greetings ..............  191

       17-20 Sec. 4 Final warning.................  198

       21-23 Sec