WRITER. The Apostle Paul (1:1). Date. Romans, the sixth in chronological order of Paul’s Epistles, was written from Corinth during the apostle’s third visit to that city (2 Cor. 13:1), in A.D. 60. The Epistle has its occasion in the intention of the apostle soon to visit Rome. Naturally, he would wish to announce before his coming the distinctive truths which had been revealed to and through him. He would desire the Christians in Rome to have his own
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