International Critical Commentary on Romans

William Sanday and Arthur Headlam’s Commentary on Romans is often recommended as being one of the best in the International Critical Commentary old series. Even if you have the replacement by C.E.B. Cranfield, this one is still worth referring to. This title entered the public domain in 2018.

William Sanday [1843-1920] & Arthur Cayley Headlam [1862-1947], A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. The International Critical Commentary, 5th Edn. Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1908. Hbk. pp.450.

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Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
  § 1. Romans in A.D. 58
  § 2. The Jews in Rome
  § 3. The Roman Church
  § 4. Time and Place, Occasion and Purpose
  § 5. Argument
  § 6. Language and Style
  § 7. Text
  § 8. Literary History
  § 9. Integrity
  § 10. Commentaries
• Commentary
• Detached Notes
  The Theological Terminology of Rom. i. 1-7
  The word dikaios and its cognates
  The Meaning of Faith in the New Testament and in some Jewish Writings
  The Righteousness of God
  St. Paul’s Description of the Condition of the Heathen World.
  Use of the Book of Wisdom in Chapter i 5
  The Death of Christ considered as a Sacrifice
  The History of Abraham as treated by St. Paul and by St. James
  Jewish Teaching on Circumcision
  The Place of the Resurrection of Christ in the teaching of St. Paul
  Is the Society or the Individual the proper object of Justification?
  The Idea of Reconciliation or Atonement
  The Effects of Adam’s Fall in Jewish Theology
  St. Paul’s Conception of Sin and of the Fall
  History of the Interpretation of the Pauline doctrine of dikaiosis
  The Doctrine of Mystical Union with Christ
  The Inward Conflict
  St. Paul’s View of the Law
  The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit
  The Renovation of Nature
  The Privileges of Israel
  The Punctuation of Rom. ix. 5
  The Divine Election
  The Divine Sovereignty in the Old Testament
  The Power and Rights of God as Creator
  The Relation of St. Paul’s Argument in chap. ix to the Book of Wisdom
  A History of the Interpretation of Rom. ix. 6-29
  The Argument of ix. 30-x. 21: Human Responsibility
  St. Paul’s Use of the Old Testament
  The Doctrine of the Remnant
  The Merits of the Fathers
  The Argument of Romans ix-xi
  St. Paul’s Philosophy of History
  The Salvation of the Individual: Free-Will and Predestination
  Spiritual Gifts
  The Church and the Civil Power
  The History of the word agape
  The Christian Teaching on Love
  The early Christian belief in the nearness of the parousia
  The relation of Chapters xii-xiv to the Gospels
  What sect or party is referred to in Rom. xiv?
  Aquila and Priscilla
  
• Index
  • Subjects
  • Latin Words
  • Greek Words