A CRITICAL EXPOSITION OF THE THIRD CHAPTER OF PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. A MONOGRAPH. BY JAMES MORISON, D. D. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO. GLASGOW: T. D. MORISON, 6 BATH STREET. 1866. 101. e. 102. PREFACE. He But he "Quid THE following MONOGRAPH on the Third Chapter of the Epistle to the Romans is respectfully and diffidently submitted to the judgement of scholarly students of the Bible. It has been a "labour of love" to the author,a solace to his spirit amid trials which he need not particularize. Retiring from the din and strife and worry of the outer world, he entered, as by an inner gate, into the school of the Prophets and Apostles. It was like a Spiritual University. It was like a home too,-a home for the heart. Having entered, he engaged with ardour in the studies pursued. He found them soothing. found the teachers inspiring as well inspired. felt peculiar attractions drawing him toward Paul. est enim Paulo rarius?" exclaims Melancthon.* he is a rare man, Paul. He He is a rare "Nothing" is rarer. Mingling freely with the other scholars, patristic, medieval, modern, and more modern, -whom the author found clustering around this incomparable instructor, he listened eagerly to the divine utterances that fell from his lips. He entered, too, with zest into the discussions of the pupils, when, in their respective groups, they ventilated among themselves the import of the Master's utterances. In these scholastic exercises, prosecuted without noise and wrangling,-he Surely teacher. * Declamatiunculae duae in Divi Pauli Doctrinam, p. 2, ed. 1522. |