A CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL COMMENTARY

on

THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS

by

C. E. B. CRANFIELD

Emeritus Professor of Theology in the University of Durham

in two volumes

Volume I

Introduction and commentary on Romans I–VIII

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First published 1975

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The

INTERNATIONAL CRITICAL COMMENTARY

on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments

general editors

J. A. EMERTON, F.B.A.

Fellow of St. John’s College

Emeritus Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge

Honorary Canon of St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem

C. E. B. CRANFIELD, F.B.A.

Emeritus Professor of Theology in the University of Durham

and

G. N. STANTON

Lady Margaret’s Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge

formerly under the editorship of

S. R. DRIVER

A. PLUMMER

C. A. BRIGGS

PREFACE

A word of explanation is perhaps required with regard to the character of the translation of Romans included in this commentary. Commentators’ translations are commonly intended to bring out as clearly and forcefully as possible the commentator’s own conclusions concerning his author’s meaning. When this is so, the translation, though it may be placed before the exegetical notes on each section, is really a summing up of the conclusions reached in those notes. My translation is designed rather to be a help to the reader at the earliest stage of his exegetical work. I have therefore refrained as far as I could from presupposing in it my own conclusions on controversial points, and have tried simply to represent as nearly as possible in English the Greek which has to be interpreted. One further point about the translation may be mentioned here: I have used the second person singular wherever it is used in the original, I have done this for the sake of exactness—though in this matter rather more than scholarly preciseness would seem sometimes to be at stake (as, for example, in 8:2).

My grateful thanks are due to the Rev. Professor T. F. Torrance and the Rev. Professor J. K. S. Reid; to the Rev. Principal M. Black; to the Rev. Dr. M. E. Glasswell, the Rev. Dr. E. W. Fasholé-Luke and the S.P.C.K.; to Dr. R. Banks and the Paternoster Press; and to Professor E. E. Ellis, Professor ...