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In the wake of two magisterial commentaries on first the Gospel of Matthew and then the Gospel of John, noted theologian and exegete Frederick Dale Bruner turns his scholarly attentions to Paul’s letter to the Romans. In this concise commentary, he relays his findings on what he calls the “Fifth Gospel” and its central claim that “through the Father’s love, Jesus’s passion, and the Spirit’s...

what the Great God, in his Son Jesus, has done, is doing, and will do for and by his believing followers throughout the world. All other obediences will flow from this majestically single one. 1:6 Paul reminds the Roman Christians that they too, like all the other Jesus-believers in the Mediterranean world, are Jesus Christ’s very specially “called ones,” that is, his “called-out ones,” to be God’s very people in Rome. What a privilege! 1:7a Douglas Moo, 55 (with his emphasis), explains Paul’s meaning
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