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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...

approved of by God. God, I am sure, was furious at the injustices propagated by the Roman government, just as I am sure he was infuriated by the policies of Hitler and Stalin. But there is a certain sense in which even Hitler’s regime was ordained of God, in the sense that it could not happen without the Lord of history’s permission. Now that permission may, from God’s perspective, be an act of judgment against the world, or against the particular people. He told Israel, when they were particularly
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