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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...

across the centuries—from the troublesome Origen (ca. 185–254) to the towering Charles Cranfield (1915–2015). I hope that some of my readers will also seek the friendship of some of these commentators as they, too, seek to understand the meaning of Paul’s masterpiece. There is a pretty wide scholarly consensus that Paul wrote his letter in the AD 50s from Corinth, just prior to his last and fateful visit to Jerusalem. In Jerusalem Paul was arrested but was eventually brought to Rome (as the Roman
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