Paul’s Letter to the Romans is the most whole and most orderly explanation of the Gospel and of God’s purposes for Jew and Gentile. The epistle unfolds human sin, divine righteousness, salvation by faith, life in the Spirit, God’s sovereign dealings with Israel, and the practical outworking of Christian living. It moves from doctrine (chapters 1–8), to dispensational explanation (chapters 9–11), to practical exhortation (chapters 12–16).
(The following commentary by Frank Binford Hole, published initially as a series of articles, has undergone linguistic revision to bring it into contemporary English. Only vocabulary, phrasing, grammar, and punctuation have been updated to reflect natural modern English. There has been no paraphrasing or adding beyond necessary linguistic modernization.)
Exposition of the letter to the Romans
Introduction to the Epistle to the Romans
Paul’s Letter to the Romans is the most whole and most orderly explanation of the Gospel and of God’s purposes for Jew and Gentile. The epistle unfolds human sin, divine righteousness, salvation by faith, life in the Spirit, God’s sovereign dealings with Israel, and the practical outworking of Christian living. It moves from doctrine (chapters 1–8), to dispensational explanation (chapters 9–11), to practical exhortation (chapters 12–16).
(The following commentary by Frank Binford Hole, published initially as a series of articles, has undergone linguistic revision to bring it into contemporary English. Only vocabulary, phrasing, grammar, and punctuation have been updated to reflect natural modern English. There has been no paraphrasing or adding beyond necessary linguistic modernization.)
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