Transcriber's Note.
Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained.
Small capitals have been rendered as full capitals, while italics are indicated by _underscores_.
Bold font, in which the author's own translation of the Epistle has been printed, is indicated by =equal signs=. These last signs also extend over Greek or Hebrew that the author has inserted in the translation, and markers for footnotes to it.
Sidenotes mark individual verses of the Epistle. These have been inserted in the text before the start of each verse.
A list of the 'Expositor's Bible' series has been shifted to the end of the book.
EDITED BY THE REV. W. ROBERTSON NICOLL, M.A., LL.D. _Editor of "The Expositor," etc._
BY HANDLEY C. G. MOULE, M.A., PRINCIPAL OF RIDLEY HALL, CAMBRIDGE
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LIBRARIAN OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, MY FRIEND OF THIRTY-TWO YEARS, TO WHOSE KINDNESS AND KNOWLEDGE I AM DEEPLY AND INCREASINGLY INDEBTED, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
Hearing read, as I do continually, the Epistles of the blessed Paul ... I delight in the enjoyment of his spiritual trumpet, and my heart leaps up, and my longings set me glowing, as I recognize the voice so dear to me, and seem to image the speaker all but present to me, and to see him in discourse. But I mourn and am distressed, because all do not know this man as they should know him.... It is from hence our myriad evils spring--from our ignorance of the Scriptures. Hence grows this epidemic of our heresies; hence our neglected lives, hence our unfruitful toil.
ST CHRYSOSTOM, _Preamble to Homilies on the Epistle to the Romans_.