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The book of Romans has been influential in critical moments of the Church history. In the early church, Paul’s words in this book were the means of the conversion of Augustine. During the Protestant Reformation they particularly influenced Martin Luther and John Calvin. Later, in the evangelical revival of the eighteenth century, they changed the lives of George Whitefield and John Wesley. But it...

1 INTRODUCTION AND GREETINGS (1:1–16) Paul begins very briefly and succinctly with these words: Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God. Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus (verse 1) In seminary, I saw a manuscript written by Marcus Barth, the son of Karl Barth, of some 168 pages on these words, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ … In the Greek text, the word that the apostle uses is doulos which is not properly translated ‘servant’. A servant in the
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