The Pulpit Commentary — Romans — Section 429

EXPOSITION. oan only refer to the doxology of eh. xvi. CHAPTER XV. 25--27. Hence it would seem tho.t in some Ver.1---dl. :rvi. 24.-IV. SUPPLEHENTARY. Le.tin copy of the Epistle to whioh the to.hle (See summary of oontent.5, p. xvi.) Ques- of contents referred, the doxology followed tions have been raised and much discussed oh. xiv. 23 with nothing between. e.s to the oonnection of the last two chapters, (c) Tertullian, Irenmus, and Oyprian, n. and :r.vi., with the rest of the Epistle. who quote largely from the Epistle, have no The facts e.nd the opinions founded on them references to eh. xv. and xvi. It may be may be summarized as follow&. observed, however, that mere omission to (1) There is sufficient proof that in early quote is not in itself conclusive, though it times copies of the Epistle existed with- may be corroborative of other evidence. out these two chapters. The evideDoe ill (2) The conoluding doxology (eh. :r.vi. tl:ie- 25-27), though placed, as in the Textue (a) Origen (on eh. xvi. 25--27) speaks Receptus, at the end of eh. :r.vi. in the of some copies in his time being without uncials generally and by the Latin Fathers, the concluding doxology, e.nd also with- is found at the end of eh. xiv. in the uncial out e.ny pa.rt of these two chaptem, attri- L, in most cursives, in the Greek Lection- buting the amiseion to Marcion, for his aries, and ie so referred to by the Greek own purposes, having mutilated the EpisUe. commentators. Some few manuscripts have His words a.re, .. Caput hoo ( i.e. eh. xvi it in both places, and some few omit it ~27) :Ha.rcion. a quo scripturai evange- altogether. Origen also (loc. cit.) says that li'2 et apostolicle interpolat&l sunt, de hac in some copies of the Epistle which con- Epist.ola penitus e.bstulit; et non solum tained eh. xv. and :r.vi., the doxology was hoe, eed ab hoe loco nbi IICriptum est, Omne placed at the end of eh. :r.vi., and in others autem qnod non ex fide est peccatum est at the end of eh. xiv. (i~. eh. xiv. 23) usque ad fi.uem cuncta die- (3) In one manuscript (G) all mention of ee.cu.it." Tertullian e.lso (' Contra Marcion ') Rome in the Epistle ia omitted ; and in one 8pea.ks of Me.rcicm having mutilated this corsive (47) there is a marginal note to the Epistle, though noi specifying these two effect that "some one" (i.e. probably, some chapter& commentator) makes no mention of the (b) In Oode:s: Amiatinns (a ma.nuscript of words ,,, PtfiJJ,p either in the interpretation the Latin Bible of the sixth century) there or tho text. ill a prefixed table of cont.ent.a, referring In view of these facts, it may be beld that by numben to the BeCtionB into which the Epistle, as 11rst written, ended at eh. the Epilltle wae divided, and describing the xiv. with the doxology appended, eh. xv. 1111l,ject of each section. In thill to.ble the and xvi. (ending e.t ver. 24 with the usual 11flieth 118<."tion ill thUI described: "On the concluding benediction, "The groce," ete.) peril of 011e who grievee his brother by hie having been an addition. Baur, after bis n.£-at," plaioly denoting eh. :s:iv. 15-23; mauner-an<l this partly on supposed in- and the next &11d couclnding section ill ternal evidence - <liHputcs the two last dtwcrilof:d thll8: "On the myat.ery of the chapters having been written by St. Paul at Lord kept - t before hill Pauioo, but all, regarding them aa o.n o.<l<lition by o. &fl.!ol LiaPIIAiion rev.Ied," which i;k:acription later bo.od. Dut his reasons 11,ro too arbitro.ry on. xv.1-38.] THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS. 427