A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans (Paperback)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: symbols of truth, but Paul's was not such a mind. And so at the very outset of his ministry he differed with Peter and James?not at all in regard to the inner and essential truth, but only in regard to the question as to whether they ought to employ a certain set of outward symbols. Paul's field of labor evidently did not lie within the walls of Jerusalem, and it was a blessed thing for the Gentile world that it did .not. That was the providential place of the much more conservative James, for the Jews of Jerusalem also must have at least a briefly lingering opportunity. III. After H1s Conversion. 1. Preaching Jesus as the Son of God. After the culminating point in his conversion was reached on the road near Damascus, and the sight of the living and glorified body of Jesus of Nazareth, and the incidents which occurred in the house of Ananias, Paul straightway preached this Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. This truth was the one of fundamental importance in the new phase of the Old Testament religion called the gospel, and of which we spoke in the foregoing section. To admit the divine Sonship of Jesus, was to admit every thing that constituted the gospel. So it was, at least, with any Jew, though not so perhaps with the modern Gentile who is also nominally a Christian. He may be indisposed to doubt the historical evidence in favor of the divinity of Jesus, and yet be any thing else than a Christian at heart. If Paul could induce his hearers, whether Jewish or Gentile, to believe that Jesus was really the Son of God the fundamental point would be gained, for though it might not setthem right in all matters of private morals and religious worship, it would be equivalent to the full committal of themselves to the gospel. He could make no progress, therefor...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: symbols of truth, but Paul's was not such a mind. And so at the very outset of his ministry he differed with Peter and James?not at all in regard to the inner and essential truth, but only in regard to the question as to whether they ought to employ a certain set of outward symbols. Paul's field of labor evidently did not lie within the walls of Jerusalem, and it was a blessed thing for the Gentile world that it did .not. That was the providential place of the much more conservative James, for the Jews of Jerusalem also must have at least a briefly lingering opportunity. III. After H1s Conversion. 1. Preaching Jesus as the Son of God. After the culminating point in his conversion was reached on the road near Damascus, and the sight of the living and glorified body of Jesus of Nazareth, and the incidents which occurred in the house of Ananias, Paul straightway preached this Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God. This truth was the one of fundamental importance in the new phase of the Old Testament religion called the gospel, and of which we spoke in the foregoing section. To admit the divine Sonship of Jesus, was to admit every thing that constituted the gospel. So it was, at least, with any Jew, though not so perhaps with the modern Gentile who is also nominally a Christian. He may be indisposed to doubt the historical evidence in favor of the divinity of Jesus, and yet be any thing else than a Christian at heart. If Paul could induce his hearers, whether Jewish or Gentile, to believe that Jesus was really the Son of God the fundamental point would be gained, for though it might not setthem right in all matters of private morals and religious worship, it would be equivalent to the full committal of themselves to the gospel. He could make no progress, therefor...

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October 2012

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978-0-217-66203-1

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