as decisive for the genuineness of the last two chapters of the Epistle, as of any. The aim of the Epistle to the Romans is didactic. The main object of Paul is, to furnish the Roman Church with a comprehensive statement of evangelical doctrine. No book of Scripture comes so near to being a body of divinity as this. It is systematic and logical, from beginning to end. Apostasy and redemption are the hinges upon which everything turns, and in discussing these the writer touches, either directly or