ROMANS

¹From the preface of his translation of the Epistle; quoted by Brunner, The Letter to the Romans, trans, by H. A. Kennedy (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1959), p. 9.

²Anders Nygren, Commentary on Romans, trans, by Carl C. Rasmussen (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1949), p. 3.

³Confessions of St. Augustine, trans, by Edward B. Pusey (New York: Random House, 1949), VIII, 167.

⁴Quoted by Hans J. Hillerbrand, The Reformation (New York: Harper Row, 1964), p. 27.

⁵The Works of John Wesley, I (Kansas City: Nazarene Publishing House, n.d.), 103.

⁶John Knox, Interpreter’s Bible, IX (New York: Abingdon Press, 1954), 358-59. Subsequently referred to as IB.

⁷I Clement 5:3-7 (A.D. 95-97) associates both Peter and Paul with the Roman church. In the earliest form of tradition Peter and Paul are always named as the joint founders of Roman Christianity—i.e., Peter is no more regarded as founder than Paul. They both labored in Rome, and the form which Roman Christianity took shows the effects of their joint influence. Peter was still in Jerusalem, however, as late as A.D. 49 (Gal. 1:18), but there are no references in Acts or any of Paul’s letters to Peter’s presence in Rome.

⁸Cited by Knox, IB., p. 362.

⁹Ibid.

¹⁰Marcion was the first Christian teacher to form a NT Canon (A.D. 140). He was later expelled from the Roman church for teaching that the OT God is not the God and Father of Jesus Christ.

¹¹C. H. Dodd, The Epistle to the Romans, “The Moffatt New Testament Commentary” (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1932), pp. xxiii-xxiv.

¹²Karl Barth, A Shorter Commentary on Romans (Richmond, Va.: John Knox Press, 1949), p. 14.