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This highly anticipated commentary on the Greek text of Romans by veteran New Testament scholar Richard Longenecker provides solid scholarship and innovative solutions to long-standing interpretive problems. Critical, exegetical, and constructive, yet pastoral in its application, Longenecker’s monumental work on Romans sets a course for the future that will promote a better understanding of this most famous of Paul’s letters and a more relevant contextualization of its message.
Richard N. Longenecker
Richard N. Longenecker is Ramsey Armitage Professor of New Testament, Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He receivec the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wheaton College and Wheaton Graduate School of Theology, respectively, and the Ph.D. from New College, University of Edinburgh. His principal publications include Paul, Apostle of Liberty (1964), The Christology of Early Jewish Christianity (1970), The Ministry and Message of Paul (1971), Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period (1975), “The Acts of the Apostles” in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary (1981), and The New Testament Social Ethics for Today (1984).
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The Epistle to the Romans - Richard N. Longenecker
The New International Greek Testament Commentary
Editors
I. Howard Marshall and Donald A. Hagner
The Epistle to the
ROMANS
The Epistle to the
ROMANS
A Commentary on the Greek Text
Richard N. Longenecker
WILLIAM B. EERDMANS PUBLISHING COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
© 2016 Richard N. Longenecker
All rights reserved
Published 2016 by
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Longenecker, Richard N.
The Epistle to the Romans: a commentary on the Greek text / Richard N. Longenecker.
pages cm. — (The New International Greek Testament commentary)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8028-2448-6 (cloth: alk. paper); 978-1-4674-4533-7 (ePub); 978-1-4674-4486-6 (Kindle)
1. Bible. Romans — Commentaries. I. Title.
BS2665.53.L66 2015
227′.107 — dc23
2015030832
www.eerdmans.com
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
Bibliography of Selected Commentaries and Commentary Materials
Bibliography of Supplemental Monographs, Articles, and Other Materials
Introduction to the Commentary
1. Romans vis-à-vis Paul’s Other Letters
2. Major Critical Issues in the Study of Romans
3. Distinctive Exegetical Treatments of the Present Commentary
4. Prominent Thematic Features of the Present Commentary
5. The Greek Textual Tradition of Romans
Commentary Proper
The Opening Sections of the Letter
I. Salutation (1:1-7)
II. Thanksgiving (1:8-12)
The Body Sections of the Letter
A. Body Opening
III. A Brief Introduction to Paul’s Protreptic Message (1:13-15)
B. Body Middle
IV. Section I: Righteousness, Faithfulness, and Faith (1:16–4:25)
Part One of Section I (1:16–3:20)
1. Thesis Statement on Righteousness, Faithfulness, and Faith (1:16-17)
2. God’s Wrath against Human Rebellion, Idolatry, and Debauchery (1:18-32)
3. God’s Condemnation of All Who Sin Is Just and Impartial (2:1-16)
4. Denunciations of Jews and Jewish Failures (2:17-29)
5. The Situation of the Jews before God (3:1-20)
Part Two of Section I (3:21–4:25)
6. The Thesis Statement Developed, Supported, and Elucidated (3:21-31)
7. The Example of Abraham with Respect to Righteousness and Faith (4:1-24)
8. Concluding Early Christian Confessional Statement (4:25)
V. Section II: Peace, Reconciliation, and Life in Christ
(5:1–8:39)
1. Transitional and Thesis Passage on Peace
and Reconciliation
(5:1-11)
2. The Universal and Foundational Redemptive Story: What Jesus Christ Effected vis-à-vis What Adam Brought About (5:12-21)
3. Three Important Questions, with an Interjected Illustration and Statement (6:1–7:13)
Question One: Should We Continue in Sin So That Grace May Increase?
(6:1-14)
Question Two: Should We Sin Because We Are Not under the Law but under Grace?
(6:15-23)
Interjected Illustration on the Extent of the Authority of the Mosaic Law and Statement regarding a Christian’s Freedom from the Law (7:1-6)
Question Three: Is the Law Sin?
(7:7-13)
4. Soliloquy on the Tragic Plight of Those Who Attempt to Live Their Lives Apart from God, under Their Own Steam
(7:14-25)
5. No Condemnation and New Life for People in Christ Jesus
and Therefore in the Spirit
(8:1-17)
6. Life in the Spirit, Both Personal and Universal and Both Present and Future: A Life of Suffering and Glory (8:18-30)
7. A Triumphal Affirmation of God’s Vindication, Care, and Eternal Love for People in Christ Jesus,
with Early Christian Confessional Materials Incorporated (8:31-39)
VI. Section III: The Christian Gospel vis-à-vis God’s Promises to Israel (9:1–11:36)
1. Introduction: Paul’s Great Desire for his People, Israel’s Heritage, and Israel’s Messiah, with a Closing Amen
(9:1-5)
2. Part I of Paul’s Exposition: God’s Promises Given to the Remnant
of Israel, with OT Passages Cited in Support (9:6-29)
3. Part II of Paul’s Exposition: Israel’s Present Failure and the Gentiles Blessed, with OT Passages Cited in Support (9:30–10:21)
4. Part III of Paul’s Exposition: The Course of God’s Salvation History: A Remnant within Israel, a Remnant among the Gentiles, the Salvation of All Israel,
and God’s Mercy on All People (11:1-32)
5. Doxology: A Hymn of Praise to God for His Wisdom and Knowledge, Incorporating Early Christian Confessional Materials (11:33-36)
VII. Section IV: Exhortations, Both General and Specific (12:1–15:13)
1. Opening Appeals and a Statement regarding Dedication, Commitment, and Discernment (12:1-2)
2. Appeal for Humility and Mutual Service among Believers in Jesus (12:3-8)
3. The Christian Love Ethic, Part I (12:9-21)
4. Exhortations regarding Christians and the State (13:1-7)
5. The Christian Love Ethic, Part II (13:8-14)
6. On Relations among the Christians at Rome (14:1–15:13)
C. Body Closing
VIII. Apostolic Parousia
(15:14-32)
The Concluding Sections of the Letter
IX. Peace Blessing, Commendation of Phoebe, Requests for Greetings to Be Sent to Paul’s Past Associates, Friends, and Acquaintances in Rome and to Certain Christian Households and Congregations, and a Greeting of the Christians at Rome on Behalf of the Churches That Paul Founded and Continued to Supervise (15:33–16:16)
X. Personal Subscription, Appended Greetings, and Appended Doxology (16:17-27)
Index of Contemporary Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
Septuagint
Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical
New Testament
Pseudepigrapha
Dead Sea Scrolls/Qumran
Rabbinic Sources
Targumim
Early Christian Writings
Later Christian Writings
Classical/Hellenistic Sources
Foreword
Although there have been many series of commentaries on the English text of the New Testament in recent years, very few attempts have been made to cater particularly to the needs of students of the Greek text. The present initiative to fill this gap by the publication of the New International Greek Testament Commentary is very largely due to the vision of W. Ward Gasque, who was one of the original editors of the series. At a time when the study of Greek is being curtailed in many schools of theology, we hope that the NIGTC will demonstrate the continuing value of studying the Greek New Testament and will be an impetus in the revival of such study.
The volumes of the NIGTC are for students who want something less technical than a full-scale critical commentary. At the same time, the commentaries are intended to interact with modern scholarship and to make their own scholarly contribution to the study of the New Testament. The wealth of detailed study of the New Testament in articles and monographs continues without interruption, and the series is meant to harvest the results of this research in an easily accessible form. The commentaries include, therefore, extensive bibliographies and attempt to treat all important problems of history, exegesis, and interpretation that arise from the New Testament text.
One of the gains of recent scholarship has been the recognition of the primarily theological character of the books of the New Testament. The volumes of the NIGTC attempt to provide a theological understanding of the text, based on historical-critical-linguistic exegesis. It is not their primary aim to apply and expound the text for modern readers, although it is hoped that the exegesis will give some indication of the way in which the text should be expounded.
Within the limits set by the use of the English language, the series aims to be international in character, though the contributors have been chosen not primarily in order to achieve a spread between different countries but above all because of their specialized qualifications for their particular tasks.
The supreme aim of this series is to serve those who are engaged in the ministry of the Word of God and thus to glorify God’s name. Our prayer is that it may be found helpful in this task.
I. HOWARD MARSHALL
DONALD A. HAGNER
Preface
Paul’s letter to believers in Jesus at Rome has always been highly regarded within the Christian church. It has been, in fact, the most highly acclaimed writing of the NT throughout the entire course of Christian history. It is so because it has been, in very large measure, the heartland of Christian thought, life, and proclamation.
The Vitality of Romans for Christian Piety and Practice
In 386 Augustine, having been unable to overcome his sexual addiction, was converted to Christ when he read Rom 13:13b-14: Not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of your sinful nature.
Later, in 400, in speaking of his conversion experience when reading this passage, he wrote: No further would I read, nor had I any need; for instantly, at the end of this sentence, a clear light flooded my heart and all the darkness of doubt vanished away.
¹
In 1515 Martin Luther found Paul’s teaching on the righteousness of God
and justification by faith
in Rom 1:17 to be the catalyst for his spiritual rebirth, an open door into paradise,
and a gateway to heaven,
and so the beginning of his own religious revolution — which, of course, eventuated in the Protestant Reformation. In his earlier days as an Augustinian monk he pondered deeply, with both consternation and sorrow, the meaning of the phrase iustitia Dei (the justice of God
) in his Latin Bible (though in Greek the phrase is δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ, which is better translated the righteousness of God
). Later in 1545, recalling the resolution of his own spiritual struggles when he came to a proper understanding of this passage, Luther wrote (with the translation of the Latin iustitia Dei, the justice of God,
in the text, and that of the Greek δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ, the righteousness of God,
in brackets):
I greatly longed to understand Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, and nothing stood in the way but that one expression, the justice [‘righteousness’] of God,
because I took it to mean that justice [‘righteousness’] whereby God is just [‘righteous’] and deals justly [‘righteously’] in punishing the unjust [‘unrighteous’]. My situation was that, although an impeccable monk, I stood before God as a sinner troubled in conscience, and I had no confidence that my merit would assuage him. Therefore I did not love a just [‘righteous’] and angry God, but rather hated and murmured against him. Yet I clung to the dear Paul and had a great yearning to know what he meant.
Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice [‘righteousness’] of God and the statement that the just [‘righteous’] will live by his faith.
Then I grasped the truth that the justice [‘righteousness’] of God is that righteousness whereby, through grace and sheer mercy, he justifies us by faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise. The whole of Scripture took on a new meaning, and whereas before the justice [‘righteousness’] of God
had filled me with hate, now it became to me inexpressibly sweet in greater love. This passage of Paul became to me a gateway to heaven.²
On May 24, 1738, John Wesley, having heard Luther’s Preface to the Epistle to the Romans
read by someone at the Aldersgate Street Mission in London, wrote in his journal:
About a quarter before nine [that evening], while he [Martin Luther] was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, in Christ alone for my salvation: an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.³
And in 1918 Karl Barth, who was then a young Swiss pastor, related in the Preface to his Römerbrief his own reaction to Romans in the following words: The reader will detect for himself that it has been written with a joyful sense of discovery. The mighty voice of Paul was new to me; and if to me, no doubt to many others also
— which is the response of many people today when first seriously reading Romans.⁴
The Centrality of Romans for Christian Theology
The letter to the Romans has also been central in the formulation and proclamation of Christian doctrine throughout the church’s history. In 1540 John Calvin wrote regarding Romans:
Among many other notable virtues the Epistle has one in particular, which is never sufficiently appreciated; it is this: If we have gained a true understanding of this Epistle, we have an open door to all the most profound treasures of Scripture.⁵
In 1886 Charles Bigg, then the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford University, asserted: The Pauline reactions describe the critical epochs of theology and the Church.
⁶ And Adolf Harnack, in concluding his chapter on The Presuppositions of the History of Dogma,
picked up on Bigg’s thesis and expanded it as follows:
One might write a history of dogma as a history of the Pauline reactions in the Church, and in doing so would touch on all the turning points of the history. Marcion after the Apostolic Fathers; Irenaeus, Clement and Origen after the Apologists; Augustine after the Fathers of the Greek Church; the great Reformers of the middle ages from Agobard to Wessel in the bosom of the mediaeval Church; Luther after the Scholastics; Jansenism after the council of Trent. Everywhere it has been Paul, in these men, who produced the Reformation. Paulinism has proved to be a ferment in the history of dogma, a basis it has never been. Just as it had that significance in Paul himself, with reference to Jewish Christianity, so it has continued to work through the history of the Church.⁷
It may, of course, be questioned whether Marcion in the mid-second century or Cornelius Jansen in the early seventeenth century were really turning points
in the history of Christianity. Likewise, it may be debated whether Paul’s thought was only a ferment
and never a basis
for the church’s theology. Further, one might wonder why John Chrysostom and his colleagues in the late fourth and early fifth centuries receive no mention in Harnack’s listing. Nonetheless, it remains true to say that whenever and wherever there has been a serious study of Paul’s letters there has occurred in the church some type of renewal, reformation, or revolution.
All this is particularly true with regard to Paul’s letter to the Christians at Rome. In fact,
as Joseph Fitzmyer has aptly noted, one can almost write the history of Christian theology by surveying the ways in which Romans has been interpreted.
⁸
Challenges in the Study of Romans
Yet despite its status in the church and its importance for Christian thought, life, and proclamation, Romans is probably the most difficult of all the NT letters to analyze and interpret. It hardly can be called a simple writing.
In the winter of 394-395 Augustine began to write a commentary on Romans. But after commenting on the first seven verses of chapter one,⁹ he felt unable to proceed, saying that the project was just too large for him and that he would return to easier tasks.¹⁰ In the early sixteenth century Erasmus, introducing his Paraphrase of Romans, said of Romans: The difficulty of this letter equals and almost surpasses its utility!
— citing both Origen and Jerome as early Church Fathers who had also found the letter exceedingly difficult to understand.¹¹ As Erasmus saw it, this difficulty can be attributed to three causes: (1) the style of speech
or language used, for nowhere else is the order of speech more confused; nowhere is the speech more split by the transposition of words; nowhere is the speech more incomplete through absence of an apodosis,
(2) the obscurity of things which are hard to put into words,
or the content of the letter itself, for no other letter is handicapped by more frequent rough spots or is broken by deeper chasms,
and (3) the frequent and sudden change of masks
or stances on the part of the author, for he considers now the Jews, now the Gentiles, now both; sometimes he addresses believers, sometimes doubters; at one point he assumes the role of a weak man, at another of a strong; sometimes that of a godly man, sometimes of an ungodly man.
¹²
Indeed, 2 Pet 3:16 bears eloquent testimony to the church’s mingled attitudes of (1) deep respect for Paul’s letters generally (and Romans in particular), yet also (2) real difficulties in trying to understand them, and (3) a realization of possibilities for serious misinterpretation, when it says of Paul’s letters that they contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
In fact, despite all its appearances of being straightforward and clear, no other NT writing presents greater difficulties with respect to style,
stance,
and audience
(to recall Erasmus’s three categories of difficulty) than does Romans. Likewise, no other NT writing challenges the interpreter with as many problems of provenance, purpose, character, incorporation of tradition, rhetorical genre, modes of persuasion, epistolary type, style, structure, flow of argument, and exegesis as does Romans.
Nonetheless, despite all its difficulties and problems, no other letter in the NT is as important as Romans for (1) the thought, piety, and living of Christians, (2) the theology, health, and ministry of the Christian church, and (3) the reformation and renewal of the church’s doctrine and practice, which reforms and renewals must constantly be carried forward within the church of every time, place, and circumstance. It is, therefore, incumbent on all present-day commentators who work on this most important NT letter to attempt to spell out a proper interpretation of what is written, striving always (1) to build on the work of past commentators, but also to be informed by significant studies and insights of interpreters today, (2) to be critical, exegetical, and constructive in the analysis of what is written but also pastoral in its application, and (3) to set a course for the future that will promote a better understanding of this most famous of Paul’s letters and a more relevant contextualization of its message.
1. Augustine, Confessions 8.12.29; cf. 9.2.
2. M. Luther, Preface to Latin Writings,
in Luther’s Works, 55 vols., general editors J. Pelikan (vols. 1-30) and H. T. Lehmann (vols. 31-55) (St. Louis: Concordia, 1972), 34.336-37; see also idem, Table Talk,
ibid., 54.193, 309, 442.
3. J. Wesley, Journal and Diaries I (1735-38),
in Works of John Wesley (Nashville: Abingdon, 1988), 18.249-50.
4. K. Barth, The Epistle to the Romans, 2.
5. J. Calvin, Theme of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans,
trans. R. Mackenzie, in Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries, 12 vols., ed. D. W. Torrance and T. F. Torrance (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1960; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961), 8.5.
6. C. Bigg, The Christian Platonists of Alexandria (Oxford: Clarendon, 1886; repr. 1913), 53.
7. A. Harnack, The History of Dogma, trans. N. Buchanan (Boston: Little, Brown, 1901), 136.
8. Fitzmyer, Romans, xiii.
9. See Augustine, Epistolae ad Romanos inchoata Expositio, PL 35.2087-2106.
10. See Augustine, Retractationes 1.25.
11. Erasmus, Opera 7.777.
12. Erasmus, Opera 7.777-78.
Abbreviations
General
Ep(p) Letter(s)
ET English Translation
fl. floruit (flourished)
FS Festschrift
LXX Septuagint
mg. margin
MS(S) manuscript(s)
MT Masoretic Text
n.d. no date
NT New Testament
OT Old Testament
par parallel passage
TR Textus Receptus
vid videtur (it seems or apparently; used to indicate that the reading is not certain, especially in a damaged manuscript)
Bible Translations: Contemporary English Versions
ASV American Standard Version
AV Authorized Version
BV The New Testament: Berkeley Version (Gerritt Verkuyl)
CEV Contemporary English Version
Goodspeed An American Translation (Edgar J. Goodspeed)
JB The Jerusalem Bible
KJV The Holy Bible. King James Version
Knox The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Newly Translated from the Vulgate Latin (John Knox)
LB Living Bible
Moffatt The Holy Bible. A New Translation (James Moffatt)
NABRNT New American Bible, Revised New Testament
NASB New American Standard Bible
NEB New English Bible
NET New English Translation
NIV New International Version
NJB New Jerusalem Bible
NKJV New King James Version
NLT New Living Translation (revision of The Living Bible)
NRSV New Revised Standard Version
Phillips The New Testament in Modern English / Letters to Young Churches (J. B. Phillips)
REB Revised English Bible
RSV Revised Standard Version
TEV Today’s English Version / Good News for Modern Man
TNIV Today’s New International Version
Weymouth The New Testament in Modern Speech (Richard F. Weymouth)
Williams The New Testament: A Private Translation in the Language of the People (Charles B. Williams)
Texts
GNT², ³, ⁴ The Greek New Testament. 2nd rev. ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft / United Bible Societies; 3rd rev. ed.; 4th rev. ed. 1993.
NA²⁷ Novum Testamentum Graece post Eberhard Nestle et Erwin Nestle. 27th ed. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993.
Kittel Biblia Hebraica, ed. R. Kittel. Stuttgart: Privilegierte Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1929.
Rahlfs Septuaginta, 2 vols., ed. A. Rahlfs. Stuttgart: Privilegierte Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935.
UBS⁴ The Greek New Testament, United Bible Societies, 4th ed.
W-H The New Testament in the Original Greek, with Introduction and Appendix, 2 vols., B. F. Westcott and F. J. A. Hort. Cambridge-London, 1881; 2nd ed. 1896.
Pseudepigrapha
Apoc Ab Apocalypse of Abraham
Barn Barnabas
1 En 1 Enoch
Jub Jubilees
Let Aris Letter of Aristeas
Pss Sol Psalms of Solomon
2 Bar 2 Baruch
2 En 2 Enoch
Sib Or Sibylline Oracles
T Ab Testament of Abraham
T Benj Testament of Benjamin
T Dan Testament of Dan
T Gad Testament of Gad
T Jos Testament of Joseph
T Jud Testament of Judah
T Levi Testament of Levi
T Naph Testament of Naphtali
T Reub Testament of Reuben
Epigraphic and Papyrological Publications
POxy Oxyrhynchus Papyri, ed. B. P. Grenfell and A. S. Hunt. London, 1898-.
SbGU Sammelbuch griechischer Urkunden aus Ägypten, ed. Friedrich Preisigke, et al. Wiesbaden, 1915-93.
Rabbinic Works
b. Babylonian Talmud
Baba Mes. Baba Meṣi ʿa
Baba Qam. Baba Qamma
Ber. Berakot
Git. Giṭṭin
y. Jerusalem Talmud
Ketub. Ketubbot
m. Mishnah
Mak. Makkot
Meg. Megillah
Mek. Mekilta
Midr. Midrash
Naz. Nazir
Ned. Nedarim
Pesiq. R. Pesiqta Rabbati
Qidd. Qiddušin
Shabb. Shabbat
Tanch. Tanḥuma
Ter. Terumot
Yebam. Yebamot
Grammatical, Syntactical, and Lexical Aids
ATRob A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research, A. T. Robertson. London: Hodder & Stoughton; New York: Doran, 2nd ed. revised and enlarged, 1915; repr. Nashville: Broadman, 1934.
BAG A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, W. Bauer, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957.
BDB A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, with an Appendix Containing the Biblical Aramaic, F. Brown, S. R. Driver, and C. A. Briggs. Oxford: Clarendon, 1907; corrected 1952.
BDF A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature Literature, F. Blass, A. Debrunner, and R. W. Funk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961 (ET from 1913 German 4th. ed).
Burton Syntax of the Moods and Tenses in New Testament Greek, E. D. Burton, 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1898.
D-M A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament, H. E. Dana and J. R. Mantey. Toronto: Macmillan, 1927.
EDNT Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament, ed. H. Balz, G. Schneider. ET: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990-93.
LSJM A Greek-English Lexicon, H. G. Liddell and R. Scott; revised by H. S. Jones and R. McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon, 1968.
M-G A Concordance of the Greek Testament, ed. W. F. Moulton and A. S. Geden. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897; 4th ed. revised by H. K. Moulton, 1963.
M-M The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament, Illustrated from the Papyri and Other Non-Literary Sources, James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930.
Moule An Idiom-Book of New Testament Greek, C. F. D. Moule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed. 1959.
M-T A Grammar of New Testament Greek, J. H. Moulton and N. Turner. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark: Vol. 1, Prolegomena (3rd ed., 1908); Vol. 2, Accidence and Word-Formation with an Appendix on Semitisms in the New Testament, by J. H. Moulton and W. F. Howard (1919, 1929); Vol. 3, Syntax, by N. Turner (1963); Vol. 4, Style, by N. Turner (1976).
Porter Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood, S. E. Porter. New York: Peter Lang, 1989.
Thrall Greek Particles in the New Testament. Linguistic and Exegetical Studies, M. E. Thrall. Leiden: Brill, 1962.
Reference Works
ANF The Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. A. Roberts and J. Donaldson; American edition, 10 vols., ed. A. C. Coxe. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987.
APOT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, ed. R. H. Charles (1913, repr. 1963).
CCLat Corpus christianorum, series latina
CIJ Corpus inscriptionum Judaicarum, 2 vols., ed. J. B. Frey (1936-52).
CSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum, Vienna Academy (1866ff.).
GCS Die griechische christliche Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte
JE The Jewish Encyclopedia, 12 vols., ed. I. Singer. New York: Ktav, 1901-1906.
NPNF The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, ed. P. Schaff, 14 vols. Buffalo: Christian Literature, 1886-90.
NTA New Testament Apocrypha, 2 vols., ed. W. Schneemelcher, trans. R. McL. Wilson. London: Lutterworth, 1963, 1965.
OTP The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols., ed. J. H. Charlesworth (1983, 1985).
PG Patrologia graeca, 162 vols., ed. Jacques-Paul Migne (1857-86).
PL Patrologia latina, 221 vols., ed. Jacques-Paul Migne (1844-66).
Statistik R. Morgenthaler, Statistik des neuetestamentlichen Wortschatzes. Zurich and Frankfurt-am-Main: Gotthelf Verlag, 1958.
Str-Bil Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, 5 vols, H. L. Strack and P. Billerbeck. Munich: Beck, 1922-1961.
TDNT Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, 9 vols., ed. G. Kittel and G. Friedrich, trans. G. W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964-74 (ET of TWNT).
TWNT Theologisches Wörterbuch zum Neuen Testament, 10 vols., ed. G. Kittel (vols. 1-4) and G. Friedrich (vols. 5-10). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1933-1978.
Series (Commentaries, Texts, and Studies)
AASF Annales Academiae scientarum Fennicae
AB Anchor Bible
ABD Anchor Bible Dictionary
ACNT Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament
ACCS Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture
AGAJU Arbeiten zür Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums
AnBib Analecta Biblica
ANRW Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt
ANTF Arbeiten zür neutestamentlichen Textforschung
ATANT Abhandlungen zür Theologie des Alten und Neuen Testaments
BASORSup Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research: Supplement Series
BBET Beiträge zur biblischen Exegese und Theologie
BECNT Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament
BEvT Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie
BFCT Beiträge zur Förderung christlicher Theologie
BHT Beiträge zur historischen Theologie
BJS Brown Judaic Studies
BNTC Black’s New Testament Commentary
BST Bible Speaks Today
BTN Bibliotheca Theologica Norvegica
BZNW Beiheft zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft
CB Clarendon Bible
CBBC Cokesbury Basic Bible Commentary
CBC Cambridge Bible Commentary
CBNT Coniectanea Biblica New Testament
CCSL Corpus christianorum, Series Latina
CGTSC Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges
CNT Commentaire du Nouveau Testament
CR Corpus reformatorum
CRJNT Compendia rerum Judaicarum ad novum Testamentum
CTS Cambridge Texts and Studies
DJD Discoveries in the Judean Desert
DSB Daily Study Bible
EBC Expositor’s Bible Commentary
EGT Expositor’s Greek Testament
EKKNT Evangelisch-katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
EPC Epworth Preacher’s Commentaries
EtBib Etudes bibliques
Exp Expositor
ExpB Expositor’s Bible
FBBS Facet Books, Biblical Series
FRLANT Forschungen zur Religion und Literatur des Alten und Neuen Testaments
GNC Good News Commentary
HBK Herders Bibelkommentar
Herm Hermeneia
HNT Handbuch zum Neuen Testament
HNTC Harper’s New Testament Commentary
HTKNT Herders theologischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
IB Interpreter’s Bible
ICC International Critical Commentary
Interp Interpretation
IntCC Interpreter’s Concise Commentary
JBC Jerome Biblical Commentary
JSNT.SS Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Supplement Series
JSOT.SS Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. Supplement Series
KEKNT Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar über das Neue Testament
KNT Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
KPG Knox Preaching Guides
LBBC Layman’s Bible Book Commentary
LBC Layman’s Bible Commentary
LCC Library of Christian Classics
LCL Loeb Classical Library
LEC Library of Early Christianity
MCNT Meyer’s Commentary on the New Testament
MK Meyer Kommentar
MKEKNT Meyer kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar über das Neue Testament
MNTC Moffatt New Testament Commentary
MNTS McMaster New Testament Studies
MTS Marburger Theologische Studien
NAC New American Commentary
NCB New Century Bible
NDIEC New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, 5 vols.
NEchB Neue Echter Bibel
NIBC New International Biblical Commentary
NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament
NJBC New Jerome Biblical Commentary
NovTSup Novum Testamentum Supplement
NTAbh Neutestamentliche Abhandlungen
NTC New Testament Commentary
NTD Das Neue Testament Deutsch
NTM New Testament Message
NTRG New Testament Reading Guide
NTSR New Testament for Spiritual Reading
NTTS New Testament Tools and Studies
OBT Overtures to Biblical Theology
PC Pillar Commentary
PFES Publications of the Finnish Exegetical Society
PNTC Pelican New Testament Commentaries
RGRW Religions in the Graeco-Roman World
RNT Regensburger Neues Testament
SacPag Sacra Pagina
SB Sources bibliques
SBJ La sainte bible de Jérusalem
SBL.DS Society of Biblical Literature — Dissertation Series
SBL.SBS Society of Bible Literature — Sources for Biblical Study
SBLSemStud Society of Biblical Literature — Semeia Studies
SBLTT:ECLS Society of Biblical Literature — Texts and Translations: Early Christian Literature Series
SBL.WAW Society of Biblical Literature — Writings from the Ancient World
SBS Stuttgarter Bibelstudien
SBT Studies in Biblical Theology
SD Studies and Documents
SJLA Studies in Judaism in Late Antiquity
SNT Studien zum Neuen Testament
SNTS.MS Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas — Monograph Series
SchrifNT Schriften des Neuen Testaments
SGC Study Guide Commentaries
StudBL Studies in Biblical Literature
SUNT Studien zur Umwelt des Neuen Testaments
SVRH Schriften des Vereins für Reformationsgeschichte
TB Theologische Bücherei
TBC Torch Bible Commentary
TH Théologie historique
THKNT Theologischer Handkommentar zum Neuen Testament
TNTC Tyndale New Testament Commentaries
TPINTC Trinity Press International New Testament Commentary
TU Texte und Untersuchungen
UMS.HS University of Michigan Studies, Humanistic Series
VS Verbum salutis
VTSup Vetus Testamentum Supplements
WBC Word Biblical Commentary
WMANT Wissenschaftliche Monographien zum Alten und Neuen Testament
WUNT Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
Journals
ABR Australian Biblical Review
AJA American Journal of Archaeology (New York)
AJP American Journal of Philology (Baltimore)
ATR Anglican Theological Review (Evanston)
AusBR Australian Biblical Review (Melbourne)
AUSS Andrews University Seminary Studies (Berrien Springs, MI)
BARev Biblical Archaeology Review
BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research (Winona Lake, IN)
BEvT Beiträge zür evangelischen Theologie
Bib Biblica (Rome)
BibR Biblical Research (Chicago)
BibT Bible Translator (London)
Bijdr Bijdragen (Amsterdam/Heverlee)
BJRL Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library (Manchester)
BLit Bibel und Liturgie (Klosterneuburg)
BSac Bibliotheca Sacra (Dallas)
BTB Biblical Theology Bulletin (St. Bonaventure, NY)
BTZ Berliner Theologische Zeitschrift
BZ Biblische Zeitschrift (Freiburg — Paderborn)
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly (Washington)
Christus Christus (Paris)
CJT Canadian Journal of Theology (Toronto)
CP Classical Philology
CQR Church Quarterly Review (London)
CurTM Currents in Theology and Mission (Chicago)
EpR Epworth Review (London)
EtBib Études bibliques (Paris)
ETL Ephemerides theologicae lovanienses (Louvain-Leuven)
EvQ Evangelical Quarterly (Manchester — Aberdeen)
EvT Evangelische Theologie
ExpT Expository Times (Banstead)
Greg Gregorianum (Rome)
HBT Horizons in Biblical Theology
HeyJ Heythrop Journal (London)
HibJ Hibbert Journal (Liverpool)
HTR Harvard Theological Review (Cambridge)
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual (Cincinnati)
IBS Irish Biblical Studies (Belfast)
IJST International Journal of Systematic Theology
Int Interpretation (Richmond)
ITQ Irish Theological Quarterly (Maynooth)
JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Chico)
JAC Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum (Münster)
JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society (New Haven)
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature (Philadelphia-Missoula-Chico-Decatur)
JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies (London — Oxford)
JP Journal of Philology
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review (Philadelphia)
JR Journal of Religion (Chicago)
JRE Journal of Religious Ethics
JRH Journal of Religious History
JRS Journal of Roman Studies (London)
JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism (Leiden)
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament (Sheffield)
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament (Sheffield)
JTS Journal of Theological Studies (Oxford)
JTSA Journal of Theology for Southern Africa
Jud Judaica
LexTQ Lexington Theological Quarterly (Lexington)
LouvSt Louvain Studies (Louvain)
LumVie Lumière et Vie (Lyon)
MDB Le Monde de la Bible
MQR The Mennonite Quarterly Review
MTZ Münchener theologische Zeitschrift (Munich)
Neot Neotestamentica (Pretoria)
NKZ Neue kirchliche Zeitschrift
NovT Novum Testamentum (Leiden)
NRT Nouvelle Revue théologique (Tournai)
NTS New Testament Studies (Cambridge)
NTT Norsk Teologisk Tidsskrift
Numen Numen: International Review for the History of Religions (Leiden)
OrT Oral Tradition
PRS Perspectives in Religious Studies
PSBSup Princeton Seminary Bulletin Supplement
PTR Princeton Theological Review
RB Revue biblique (Paris — Jerusalem)
RBén Revue bénédictine (Maredsous)
RBR Ricerche bibliche e religiose (Milan)
ResQ Restoration Quarterly (Abilene)
RevApol Revue apologétique
RevExp Review and Expositor (Louisville)
RevistB Revista bíblica (Buenos Aires)
RHPR Revue d’histoire et de philosophie religieuses (Strasbourg)
RSPT Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques (Paris)
RSR Recherches des sciences religieuses (Strasbourg)
RTR Reformed Theological Review (Melbourne)
SEÅ Svensk exegetisk årsbok (Uppsala)
Semeia Semeia. An Experimental Journal for Biblical Criticism (Missoula-Chico-Decatur)
SHAW Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft Philosophisch-historische Klasse
SJT Scottish Journal of Theology (Edinburgh)
SR Studies in Religion
ST Studia theologica (Lund — Aarhus — Oslo)
STK Svensk teologisk Kvartalskrift
TB Tyndale Bulletin (Cambridge)
TBei Theologische Beiträge (Wuppertal)
TBlä Theologische Blätter
TEvan Theologia Evangelica (Pretoria)
TJT Toronto Journal of Theology (Toronto)
TLZ Theologische Literaturzeitung (Leipzig — Berlin)
TP Theologie und Philosophie
TPAPA Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association
TS Theological Studies
TSK Theologische Studien und Kritiken
TTijd Theologisch Tijdschrift
TTZ Trierer theologische Zeitschrift (Trier)
TV Theologia Viatorum
TZ Theologische Zeitschrift (Basel)
TZT Tübingen Zeitschrift für Theologie (Tübingen)
VC Vigiliae christianae (Amsterdam)
VD Verbum domini
VT Vetus Testamentum (Leiden)
WesTJ Wesleyan Theological Journal
WTJ Westminster Theological Journal (Philadelphia)
WW Word and World (St. Paul)
ZEE Zeitschrift für evangelische Ethik
ZKG Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte (Stuttgart)
ZKT Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie (Innsbruck)
ZNW Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (Berlin)
ZST Zeitschrift für systematische Theologie
ZTK Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche (Tübingen)
ZWT Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie
Bibliography of Selected Commentaries and Commentary Materials
Note: References to the following commentaries and commentary materials will be by authors’ names and abbreviated titles.
I. The Patristic Period
Major Greek Fathers (listed chronologically)
Origen (c. 185-254). Commentarium in epistulam b. Pauli ad Romanos (Rufinus’s abridged Latin translation, PG 14.833-1291).
———. Commentarii in Epistulam ad Romanos, 5 vols., ed. T. Heither. Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Herder, 1990-95 (CER).
———. Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, trans. T. P. Scheck. Washington: Catholic University Press of America, 2001.
———. The Writings of Origen, trans. F. Crombie, in Ante-Nicene Christian Library, vols. 10 and 23, ed. A. Roberts and J. Donaldson. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1869.
Diodore of Tarsus (died c. 390). Fragments of a Commentary on Romans,
in Die Pauluskommentare aus der griechischen Kirche, ed. K. Staab. Münster: Aschendorff, 1933, 83-112.
John Chrysostom (c. 347-407). Homilia XXXII in Epistolam ad Romanos (PG 60.391-682).
———. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Romans,
in NPNF, 11.329-564 (cf. also PG 64.1037-38; 51.155-208).
Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350-428). In epistolam Pauli ad Romanos commentarii fragmenta (PG 66.787-876).
———. Fragments of a Commentary on Romans, in Die Pauluskommentare aus der Griechischen Kirche, ed. K. Staab. Münster: Aschendorff, 1933, 113-72.
Cyril of Alexandria (died c. 444). Explanatio in Epistulam ad Romanos (PG 74.773-856).
Theodoret of Cyrrhus (393-466). Interpretatio in Epistulam ad Romanos (PG 82.43-226).
Gennadius of Constantinople (died c. 471). Epistulam ad Romanos (fragments), in Pauluskommentare aus der griechischen Kirche, ed. K. Staab. Münster: Aschendorff, 1933.
Major Latin Fathers (listed chronologically)
Tertullian (c. 145-220). Adversus Marcionem (PL 2.263-555).
———. Adversus Valentinianos (PL 2.558-662).
———. The Five Books against Marcion
and Against the Valentinians,
in ANF, 3.269-475, 503-20.
Ambrosiaster (wrote c. 366-384). Commentarium in epistulam beati Pauli ad Romanos (PL 17.47-197; CSEL 81.1).
Augustine (c. 354-430). Expositio quarundam propositionum ex epistola ad Romanos (PL 35.2063-88).
———. Epistolae ad Romanos inchoata expositio (PL 35.2087-2106).
———. Augustine on Romans: Propositions from the Epistle to the Romans. Unfinished Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, ed. and trans. P. A. Landes. SBLTT: ECLS 23.6; Chico: Scholars, 1982.
———. Retractationes (CSEL 84.183-85).
———. De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus (PL 40.11-101).
———. De diversis quaestionibus ad Simplicianum (PL 40.102-47).
Pelagius (c. 354-420). In Epistolam ad Romanos (PL 30.646-718).
———. Pelagius’s Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. Translated with Introduction and Notes, by T. de Bruyn. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
II. The Reformation Period
Major Roman Catholic Commentators (listed chronologically)
Thomas Aquinas (1225-74). Expositio in omnes sancti Pauli epistolas. Epistola ad Romanos,
in Opera omnia, 25 vols. Parma: Fiaccadori, 1852-73; repr. New York: Musurgia, 1948-50, 13.3-156.
Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536). The Collected Works of Erasmus, vol. 42: Paraphrases on Romans and Galatians, trans. J. B. Payne, A. Rabil, Jr., and W. S. Smith, Jr.; ed. R. D. Sider. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
———. Annotations on Romans, ed. R. D. Sider et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Major Protestant Commentators (listed chronologically)
Martin Luther (1483-1546). Luthers Werke, 61 vols. Weimar: Böhlaus, 1883-1983: vol. 56 (Glossae & Scholia), 1938; vol. 57 (Nachschriften), 1939.
———. Luther’s Works, 55 vols., general editors J. Pelikan (vols. 1-30) and H. T. Lehmann (vols. 31-55): vol. 25, Lectures on Romans: Glosses and Scholia,
trans. W. G. Tillmanns and J. A. O. Preus, ed. H. C. Oswald. St. Louis: Concordia, 1972.
———. Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. A New Translation, trans. and ed. J. T. Mueller. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954.
———. Luther: Lectures on Romans, Newly Translated and Edited by W. Pauck. LCC 15; London: SCM; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1961.
Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Melanchthons Werke in Auswahl, 7 vols., ed. R. Stupperich. Gütersloh: Mohn, 1951-75, 5.25-371.
———. Loci Communes Theologici, trans. J. A. O. Preuss. St. Louis: Concordia, 1992.
———. Commentary on Romans, trans. F. Kramer. St. Louis: Concordia, 1992.
Martin Bucer (1491-1551). In epistolam ad Romanos,
in Metaphrases et enarrationes epistolarum d. Pauli apostoli. Strasbourg: Rihel, 1536; repr. Basel: Pernan, 1562, 1-507.
John Calvin (1509-64). Commentarii in omnes epistolas Pauli apostoli. Strasbourg: Rihel, 1539.
———. Commentarius in epistolam Pauli ad Romanos, ed. T. H. L. Parker. Leiden: Brill, 1981.
———. Commentary on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, trans. J. Owen. Edinburgh: Calvin Translation Society, 1844; repr. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1947.
———. The Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Romans and to the Thessalonians, trans. R. Mackenzie, in Calvin’s Commentaries, 12 vols., ed. D. W. Torrance and T. F. Torrance. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1960; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961, 8.5-328.
———. Calvin’s New Testament Commentaries, trans. and ed. T. H. L. Parker. London: SCM; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971.
Bengel, Johann A. (1687-1752). Gnomon Novi Testament, 2 vols. Tübingen: Fues, 1742; ET: Gnomon of the New Testament, 2 vols., trans. C. T. Lewis and M. R. Vincent. Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1860, 1862; repr. as New Testament Word Studies, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1978.
Wesley, John (1703-91). Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament. London: Epworth, 1950 (repr. of 1754 edition).
III. The Modern Critical Period (listed alphabetically)
Achtemeier, Paul J. Romans. A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching. Interp; Atlanta: John Knox, 1985.
Althaus, Paul. Der Brief an der Römer übersetzt und erklärt. NTD; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1978.
Barclay, William. The Letter to the Romans. Daily Study Bible; Edinburgh: St. Andrews, 1955; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975, repr. 1978.
Barrett, C. Kingsley. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. BNTC / HNTC; London: Black; New York: Harper & Row, 1957; 2nd ed. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1991.
Barth, Karl. The Epistle to the Romans, trans. E. C. Hoskyns. London/New York: Oxford University Press, 1933; original German publication: Der Römerbrief. Zollikon-Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag, 1919; ET from Sixth Edition. Munich: Kaiser, 1929; rev. ed. by H. Schmitt, Zurich: Theologischer Verlag, 1985.
Best, Ernest. The Letter of Paul to the Romans. CBC; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
Billerbeck, Paul. Kommentar zum Neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, 6 vols. Munich: Beck, 1926-63, vol. 3 (4th ed. 1965), 1-320.
Black, Matthew. Romans. NCB; London: Oliphants; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1973; 2nd ed. 1989.
Bray, Gerald, ed. Romans, in Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, general editor T. C. Oden, vol. VI. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1998.
Brown, Raymond E. Letter to the Romans,
in his An Introduction to the New Testament. New York: Doubleday, 1997, 559-84.
Bruce, Frederick F. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans: An Introduction and Commentary. TNTC; London: Tyndale; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1963; 2nd ed., 1969; repr. Leicester: Inter-Varsity; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1985.
Brunner, Emil. The Letter to the Romans: A Commentary, trans. H. A. Kennedy. London: Lutterworth; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1959; ET from Der Römerbrief übersetzt und erklärt. Stuttgart: Oncken, 1938; repr. 1956.
Byrne, Brendan. Romans. SacPag; Collegeville: Liturgical, 1996.
Craig, Gerald R. The Epistle to the Romans
(Exposition), in The Interpreter’s Bible, 12 vols, ed. G. A. Buttrick et al. New York: Abingdon, 1954, 9.379-668.
Cranfield, Charles E. B. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. ICC; 2 vols. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1975, 1979.
Denney, James. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. EGT; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1900, 2.555-725; repr. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970, 1983.
Dodd, Charles Harold. The Epistle of Paul to the Romans. MNTC; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1932; rev. ed. London: Collins, 1959.
Dunn, James D. G. Romans. WBC; 2 vols. Dallas: Word, 1988-89.
Fitzmyer, Joseph A. Romans: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. AB; New York: Doubleday, 1993.
Gaugler, Ernst. Der Brief an die Römer, 2 vols. Zurich: Zwingli, 1945; repr. 1958.
Gifford, Edward H. The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, with Notes and Introduction. London: Murray, 1881; repr. 1886.
Godet, Frédéric. Commentary on St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, 2 vols., trans. A. Cusin. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1880-81; New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1883; repr. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1977; ET from Commentaire sur l’épître aux Romains, 2 vols. Paris: Sandoz & Rischbacher; Geneva: Desrogis, 1879; repr. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 1879-81.
Gore, Charles. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: A Practical Exposition, 2 vols. London: Murray; New York: Scribners, 1899-1900; repr. 1907.
Haldane, Robert. Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, 3 vols. Edinburgh: Whyte, 1839; repr. New York: Carter, 1853; repr. in one volume as Commentary on Romans, Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1988.
Hamilton, Floyd E. The Epistle to the Romans: An Exegetical and Devotional Commentary. Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1958.
Harrison, Everett F., and Donald A. Hagner. Romans,
in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, rev. ed., 13 vols., ed. T. Longman and D. E. Garland. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008, 11.19-237.
Harrisville, Roy A. Romans. ACNT; Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1980.
Hendriksen, William. Exposition of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, 2 vols. NTC; Grand Rapids: Baker; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1980-81.
Hodge, Charles. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot, 1835; 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Claxton, 1864; repr. New York: Armstrong, 1896; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980.
Huby, Joseph. Saint Paul. Épître aux Romains. Traduction et commentaire. VS; Paris: Beauchesne, 4th ed. 1940; new ed., rev. S. Lyonnet, 1957.
Hunter, Archibald M. The Epistle to the Romans: Introduction and Commentary. TBC; London: SCM, 1955; repr. with subtitle The Law of Love, 1968, 1977.
Jewett, Robert. Romans: A Commentary. Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Johnson, Luke Timothy. Reading Romans: A Literary and Theological Commentary. Macon: Smyth & Helwys, 2001.
Käsemann, Ernst. Commentary on Romans, trans. G. W. Bromiley. London: SCM; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980; ET from An die Römer. HNT; Tübingen: Mohr-Siebeck, 1973; 4th ed 1980.
Kertelge, Karl. The Epistle to the Romans, trans. F. McDonagh. NTSR; London: Sheed & Ward; New York: Herder & Herder, 1972; ET from Der Brief an die Römer. Düsseldorf: Patmos, 1971.
Knox, John. The Epistle to the Romans
(Introduction and Exegesis), in The Interpreter’s Bible, 12 vols., ed. G. A. Buttrick et al. New York: Abingdon, 1954, 9.353-668.
Kühl, Ernst. Der Brief des Paulus an die Römer. Leipzig: Quell & Meyer, 1913.
Kuss, Otto. Der Römerbrief übersetzt und erklärt, 3 vols. (on chs. 1-11). Regensburg: Pustet, 1957, 1959, 1978.
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