and continues to challenge—the intellectual powers of interpreters. The seeming inconsistencies and enigmatic logic give rise to many questions and make Romans the most perplexing of Paul’s letters. There may well be more written about Romans than about any other book of the New Testament. (For an extensive list of commentaries up to 1973, see Cranfield 1980:xiii–xviii.) But the book of Romans is well worth the struggle. Here, then, is the greatest of all Paul’s letters, a letter that many Christians