Chapter 1
Chapter 1
Cole, p. 31.
From the chapter entitled ‘Psychological Objections’ by H. A. Williams, in Objections to Christian Belief (Constable, 1963), pp. 55–56.
C. H. Dodd, The Epistle to the Romans, Moffatt New Testament Commentary (Hodder, 1932), pp. xxxiv–xxxv.
lxx peri hamartias, e.g. Lev. 5:11 and Num. 8:8. Cf. Rom. 8:3 and 1 Pet. 3:18, where the preposition is again peri.
Luther, p. 47.
Lightfoot, p. 73.
Chapter 2
See metatithēmi in Moulton and Milligan.
Brown, p. 48.
Chapter 3
Lightfoot, p. 87.
Quoted by Lightfoot, p. 90.
Luther, p. 87.
Lord Beaverbrook, The Divine Propagandist (Heinemann, 1962), pp. 11–12.
Chapter 4
Lightfoot, p. 104.
Lightfoot, p. 106.
Chapter 5
Neill, p. 32.
Luther, p. 114.
Chapter 6
Luther, p. 101.
Luther, p. 95.
Luther, pp. 114, 121.
Luther, p. 426.
Luther, p. 143.
Luther, p. 26.
Cf. Deut. 25:1; Prov. 17:15; Rom. 8:33–34.
Chapter 7
Luther, p. 122.
Chapter 8
Cole, p. 95.
A. W. F. Blunt, The Epistle of Paul to the Galatians, The Clarendon Bible (Clarendon Press, 1925), pp. 96–97.
Neill, pp. 41–42.
Chapter 9
Luther, p. 291.
Luther, p. 302.
Neill, p. 44.
Luther, p. 316.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (Fontana, 1959), p. 50.
Chapter 11
Lightfoot, p. 166.
‘The metaphor comes from the Graeco-Roman (but not Jewish) legal device whereby a wealthy childless man might take into his family a slave youth who thus, by a great stroke of fortune, ceased to be a slave and became a son and heir’ (Hunter, p. 33).
See, e.g., Rom. 6:22; 1 Cor. 7:22–23; 2 Cor. 4:5.
Footnote added later to the entry for 29 February 1738.
Chapter 12
E.g. Acts 23:1–5; Gal. 6:11.
Lightfoot, p. 175.
Cole, p. 128.
Lightfoot, p. 179.
Brown, p. 220.
Quoted by Brown, p. 226 n. 2.
Brown, p. 228.
Chapter 14
According to Arndt–Gingrich the verb ‘do not submit’ (cf. nrsv) is passive and means ‘to be loaded down with’.
Chapter 15
Neill, p. 60.
Cole, p. 157.
Chapter 16
Luther, p. 508.
Cole, p. 161.
Lightfoot, p. 211.
Lightfoot, p. 209.
Brown, p. 309.
Rom. 8:5–6; Col. 3:1–2; Phil. 4:8.
Chapter 17
Phil. 2:3: ‘Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.’ This cannot be a command to regard everybody, including the worst offenders, as morally ‘better’ (since humility is neither blind nor perverse), but rather to regard them as ‘more important’ and therefore worthy to be served.
Luther, p. 540.
Lightfoot, p. 217.
Lightfoot, p. 216.
Lightfoot, p. 215.
Chapter 18
John 8:44; Mark 13:5–6, 22.
2 John 7; cf. 1 John 2:18–27; 4:1–6.
Eph. 5:6; cf. 1 Cor. 6:9; 2 Thess. 2:3.
Luther, p. 547.
Neill, p. 71.
Chapter 19
Cole, p. 180.
Lightfoot, p. 65.
Cole, p. 181.
Lightfoot, p. 224.
For this phrase cf. Num. 6:24–26; Pss 125:5; 128:6.
B. B. Warfield, Miracles, Yesterday and Today (Eerdmans, 1953), pp. 84–92.
Lightfoot, p. 225.
Cole, p. 185.
Review
Mark 3:14; Luke 6:13; Acts 1:15–26; 26:12–18 (especially verse 17: ‘I am sending you’, egō apostellō se); 1 Cor. 15:8–11; Gal. 1:1, 15–17.
John 14:25–26; 15:26–27; 16:12–15.
Matt. 10:40; cf. John 13:20.
Luke 10:16.
E.g. Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 6:19; Gal. 3:2, 14; 4:6.
2 Cor. 3:18.