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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

theology, marking the succession of stages into which he divides the normal course of a Christian life—all being considered not from the side of human choice and volition, but from the side of Divine care and ordering. This is summed up at the outset in the phrase κατὰ πρόθεσιν, the comprehensive plan or design in accordance with which God directs the destinies of men. There can be no question that St. Paul fully recognizes the freedom of the human will. The large part which exhortation plays in
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