"To promote the critical and doctrinal study of this important portion
of the New Testament," the author, a leading evangelical theologian of
the late nineteenth century, wrote this commentary on Romans. He
intended it for use primarily by "theological students and clergy...."
The
Greek text (that of Lachmann) is printed at the top of each page of
commentary. The notes themselves are concise and bear strictly and
directly upon the word or clause. They are primarily critical and
philological, although at times the author examines in detail the
theological import of the text. This is particularly true in chapter 5
(where the doctrine of original sin is discussed), chapters 7-8
(indwelling sin), and chapters 9-11 (election and reprobation). The
author held the Epistle to the Romans to be "in reality an inspired
system of theology."
