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Paul, the Apostle of Jesus Christ; His Life and Work, His Epistles and Teachings. a Contribution to a Critical History of Primitive Christianity Volum
Ferdinand Christian Baur
Paperback. TheClassics.us 2013-09-12.
ISBN 9781230320267
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. The Epistle to the Romans is not only chronologically connected with the two Epistles to the Corinthians; there is an inward link between them, and it is from the standpoint of the Epistle to the Romans that we first get an insight into the rich result of the Spiritual Life which the Apostle exhibited in his own person, as well as into the strict logical sequence with which he developed and carried out his Christian principles, and into the grandeur of the circumstances in which he moved. We have already remarked the relation in which the Epistle to the Galatians and that to the Romans stand to each othei, " in the interest of a bold and deep-laid system founded on essential principles, and how their whole contents are to be explained by this system which is pursued and developed throughout. This systematic character of the Epistle to the Romans, comprehending a grand harmony of ideas, distinguishes it completely from the two Epistles to the Corinthians, which are rather characterized by the variety of their contents, and the abundance of profound spiritual ideas allied to and explained by the different relations of life. This aspect of the Epistle is also manifest in the attitude assumed by the Apostle with regard to the opposition, which it was the continued aim of his apostolic efforts to combat and overcome. He had not fulfilled his mission as the Apostle to the Gentiles, whilst the absolute importance which Judaism, and the Jewish Christianity identified with it, claimed for themselves as well in their principles as in their ultimate consequences, was not separated from them, and reckoned according to its merely relative value. Just as in the Epistle to the Galatians he had emancipated
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