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Dr. Barclay’s fresh translation and clear exposition make Paul’s very complicated letter to the church in Rome easier than ever to understand. Both in mood and in method Romans is entirely different from Paul's other writings. Here he is settling down in a systematic fashion the essence of his faith—bequeathing in a “theological last will and testament” the ideas which have most shaped Christian...

for special honour but for special responsibility. He knew that God had set him apart, not for glory but for toil. It may well be that there is a play on words here. Once, Paul had been a Pharisee (Philippians 3:5). Pharisee may very well mean the separated one. It may be that the Pharisees were so named because they had deliberately separated themselves from all ordinary people and would not even let the skirt of their robes brush against an ordinary man. They would have shuddered at the very thought
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