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Title: St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II
A Practical Exposition

Author: Charles Gore

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_St. Paul's_

_Epistle to the Romans_

_A Practical Exposition_

BY CHARLES GORE, M.A., D.D.

OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RESURRECTION
CANON OF WESTMINSTER; CHAPLAIN TO THE KING

VOL. II

(CHAPTERS IX-XVI)

NEW IMPRESSION

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET

1901

OXFORD

HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY

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PREFACE

There would be no need for a preface to this second volume were it not
that a very kindly and careful review of the first volume in _The
Guardian_ of May 24 last, requires a word of notice. The reviewer
warns me off 'the dialogue system of exegesis.' Now no doubt this
principle, like every other, may be abused. 'The Jewish objector' may,
as the reviewer complains, be allowed to 'run riot.' Still I cannot
doubt that the Jewish objector is a reality of an illuminative kind in
the argument of such passages as Romans iii. 1-8, or the great passage
(ix-xi), to which the first part of this volume is devoted. Of the
other points of detail noticed by the reviewer--which a volume of this
kind is not the place to discuss--many are confessedly doubtful, and
some unimportant. On most of {vi} them I am still disposed to retain
my former opinion, but I would, in accordance with my critic's wishes,
alter 'the actual life' (vol. i. p. 203) into 'the principle of life,'
and (p. 213) instead of saying that the principle of living by dying
'belongs only to a fallen world' say that 'it belongs, _as St. Paul
views it, though probably not in its ultimate law_, to a fallen world.'
I agree that in its deepest sense the principle appears to be an
ultimate law of all created life of which the conditions are known to
us.

C. G.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY,
_Conversion of St. Paul_, 1900.

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