[[9]] Rom. ix. 5.
[[10]] Tit. ii. 13.
DIVISION I. CHAPTERS I. 3-IV. 17.
§ I. CHAPTER i. 3-14.
St. Paul's leading thoughts.
St. Paul's leading thoughts
Before we read the opening paragraph of St. Paul's letter we had better review the great thoughts which are prominent in his mind as he writes. My ambition is to make my readers feel that ideas which, because they have become Christian commonplaces or because they have been blackened by controversy, have by this time a ring of unreality about them, or of theological remoteness, or of controversial bitterness, are in fact, if we will 'consider them anew,' ideas the most important, the most practical, and the most closely adapted to the moral needs of the plain man.