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Title: St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I
A Practical Exposition

Author: Charles Gore

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_St. Paul's_

_Epistle to the Romans_

_A Practical Exposition_

BY THE

RIGHT REV. CHARLES GORE, D.D.

LORD BISHOP OF WORCESTER

VOL. I

(CHAPTERS I-VIII)

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1902

FIRST EDITION . _February_, 1899.
_Reprinted . . . . . March_, 1900.
_Reprinted . . . September_, 1900.
_Reprinted . . . . October_, 1902.

OXFORD

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

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PREFACE

A good excuse is needed for adding to the large number of excellent
commentaries on the Epistle to the Romans which already exist. But I
think there is such an excuse. These commentaries are not of the sort
which readers who are educated but not scholarly find it easy to
master; so that in fact this epistle is at the present day very much
misunderstood or ignored by such people. And again, partly owing to
its interpretation at the period of the Reformation and by some
Evangelicals of later date, it is still practically to a great extent
viewed with discomfort and neglected by those who most value the name
of Catholic. My excuse, then, for adding to the expositions of the
Romans lies in these facts. One who is necessarily immersed in the
practical work of the Christian ministry, and is yet struggling to keep
himself in some sense in line with biblical scholarship, if his life
involves special disadvantages, may yet hope to be useful in
interpreting to ordinary Christians {vi} the results of the scholars.
And I am persuaded that it requires one who enters thoroughly into the
spirit of churchmanship, or the obligation of the one body, to
interpret with any completeness the mind of St. Paul.

This volume has practically no more connexion with lectures delivered
in Westminster Abbey last Lent, than is implie