Section IV Personal Conclusion

^lOp. cit., p. 475.

²ICC , “Romans,” p. 403.

³Bruce, The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, p. 260.

⁴Knox, IB, IX, 644.

⁵See comments on 12:1.

⁶Op. cit., pp. 424-25. “In the new economy which God has established in Jesus Christ, the gospel proclaimed by the apostle is the new way by which the sinner is reconciled to God: it brings the sinner to the obedience flowing from faith in Christ, the sacrificial victim who replaces every other. But the sacrifice of Christ includes and implies the sacrifice of every believer who is united to the Crucified by faith and baptism (cf. 6:2-3). Through this union the sinner becomes with Christ an offering that is living, holy, and well-pleasing to God” (Leenhardt, op. cit., p. 368).

⁷Bruce, loc. cit. Cf. Leenhardt, op. cit., pp. 368-69.

⁸0f God should be omitted here, since theou is not in the best MSS.

⁹ICC, “Romans,” p. 406. “The evidence for the existence of miracles in the Apostolic Church is twofold: on the one hand the apparently natural and unobtrusive claim made by the Apostles on behalf of themselves or others to the power of working miracles, on the other the definite historical narrative of the Acts of the Apostles. The two witnesses corroborate each other” (ibid.).

¹⁰Bruce, The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, p. 261. Sanday and Head-lam have a different explanation, however, fitting Illyricum into Paul’s second journey. “Strabo, describing the Egnatian way from the Adriatic seacoast, states that it passes through a portion of Illyria before it reaches Macedonia, and that the traveller along it has the Illyrian mountains on his left hand. St. Paul would have followed this road as far as Thessa-lonica, and if pointing Westward he had asked the names of the mountain region and of the peoples inhabiting it, he would have been told that it was ‘Illyria.’The term therefore is one which would naturally occur to him as fitted to express the limits of his journeys to the West” (ICC, “Romans,” pp. 407-8).

¹¹Word Pictures in the New Testament (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1931), IV, 422.

¹²ICC, “Romans,” p. 412. Cf. II Cor. 8:4; 9:1.

¹³“Paul mentions the Christians in these two provinces here probably because he had been for several months past in close touch with them. But we have his own testimony in I Cor. xvi. 1 that he had organized a similar collection in the churches of Galatia, and the presence of Tychicus and Trophimus with him at this time (Acts xx.4; cf. xxi.29) indicates that the churches of Ephesus and other cities in the province of Asia also had a share in this ministry” (Bruce, The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, p. 264).

¹⁴Jbid., p. 265.

^l5Thomas, op. cit., p. 408. Sanday and Headlam observe: “It has been pointed out how strongly these words make for the authenticity and early date of this chapter. No one could possibly write in this manner at a later date, knowing the circumstances under which St. Paul actually did visit Rome” (ICC, “Romans,” p. 414).

¹⁶Dodd, op. cit., p. 233.

¹⁷ICC, “Romans,” p. 417.

¹⁸Ibid., p. 418.

¹⁹Dodd, op. cit., p. 235.

²⁰See Introduction, “The Problem of Chapter 16.”

²¹St. Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians (London: The Macmillan Co., 1913), pp. 171-78.

²²Bruce, The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, p. 269. Cf. also Dodd, op. cit., pp. xx-xxiv, 236-40; ICC, “Romans,” pp. 422-28.

²³ICC, “Romans,” pp. 418-20.

²⁴See Introduction, “The Church at Rome.”

²⁵Dodd points out that there is no reason to suppose that their Roman establishment was closed down during the years they were away; all they would need to do would be to install a procurator who was not a Jew, and he could carry on the business as usual. Again, the establishment at Ephesus need not have been closed when they returned to Rome (cf. II Tim. 4:19). “Thus they could have a ‘household’(which in their case would consist mainly of their business and industrial staff) at Ephesus and at Rome at the same time; and each household would contain a body of Christian slaves and dependents” (op. tit, p. xxi).

²⁶Ibid., p. 237.

²⁷Denney, op. tit., p. 719.

²⁸ICC, “Romans,” p. 421.

²⁹The better attested reading is “you” instead of us (NASB, RSV).

³⁰Junia (lounian), however, may be masculine, although it is less usual as a man’s name. Chrysostom does not consider the idea of a female apostle impossible. Of Junia he says, “Oh! how great is the devotion of this woman, that she should be even counted worthy of the appellation of apostle!” (ICC, “Romans,” p. 423.)

³¹Dodd, op. cit., pp. xxii-xxiii.

³²Lightfoot, op. cit., p. 174.

³³Ibid.

³⁴Bruce, The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, p. 272.

³⁵Op. cit., p. 175.

³⁶Ibid.

³⁷Ibid.

³⁸Denney, op. cit., p. 720.

³⁹Lightfoot, op. cit., p. 176.

⁴⁰Choscn in this instance does not seem to carry the common meaning of gospel election: it rather means “choice,” hence “outstanding.”

⁴¹Denney, op. cit., p. 721.

⁴²Bruce, The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, p. 275.

⁴³Denney, loc. cit.

⁴⁴This is a unique expression in Paul.

⁴⁵Quoted by ICC, “Romans,” pp. 428-29.

⁴⁶Dodd, op. cit., p. 242.

⁴⁷ICC, “Romans,” p. 429.

⁴⁸Denney, op. cit., p. 722.

⁴⁹Ibid., p. 723.

⁵⁰Robertson, op. cit., p. 430.

⁵¹0p. cit., pp. 723-24.

⁵²ICC, “Romans,” p. 433.

⁵³Ibid.

⁵⁴lbid., pp. 434-35.

⁵⁵Ibid., p. 435.

⁵⁶Ibid., p. 436.