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Published in 1901, W.E. Ball’s St. Paul and the Roman Law and Other Studies on the Origin of the Form of Doctrine is a fascinating analysis of Roman law, and how expanded comprehension of its language and formation will lead to a deeper New Testament exegesis. In clear, bold prose, Ball establishes the importance of Paul’s Roman citizenship, and how without it, Christianity may not have extended...

deeply the study of jurisprudence imbued their minds and coloured their ideas, that we obtain an adequate sense of the forcefulness of many of St. Paul’s allusions, or duly appreciate the appropriateness of some of his lines of argument to the spirit of the age in which he lived, or discern that some of the doctrines of the faith have assumed the form in which they have come down to us, from the accident—if in such a connection we may speak of accidents—of this Apostle’s status and education. Of
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