[50] Rom. i. 16; ii. 9, 10; ix. 4, 5; xi. 1, 2.
[51] In his L'apôtre Paul: esquisse d'une histoire de sa pensée, an admirable work, to which the writer is under great obligation.
[52] See Chapter VII. pp. 109, 110.
[53] ἐὰν μὴ has the same partially exceptive force as εἰ μὴ in ch. i. 7, 19. Comp. Rom. xiv. 14; also Luke iv. 26, 27.
[54] For this emphatic found, describing a process of moral conviction and inward discovery, comp. Rom. vii. 10, 18, 21; the whole passage strikingly illustrates the reminiscence of our text.
[55] Commentarii, in loc.
[56] See Grimm's Lexicon, or Trench's N. T. Synonyms, on this word. Comp. ch. iii. 19; Rom. ii. 23-27; iv. 15; v. 14.
[57] The I of this sentence is quite indefinite. On the other hand ver. 19, with its emphatic ἐγώ γάρ, brings us into a new vein of thought.
[58] Comp. ch. iii. 10-12, 19; Rom. iii. 20; iv. 15.
[59] This verb has, as Schott suggests, a tinge of irony.