ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS. BY CHARLES HODGE, D.D., PROFESSOR IN THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY. NEW EDITION, EDINBURGH: ANDREW ELLIOT, 15 PRINCES STREET, 1864. 101. e. 81. PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT. IN 1835 Dr. Hodge published an elaborate Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans. The whole edition was soon exhausted, and very few copies reached this country. An abridgement of it, however, was prepared for popular use, from which were omitted the remarks on the meaning and construction of the Greek, and the more elaborate theological discussions. This abridgement has been frequently reprinted both in America and in this country, and forms the work known on this side of the Atlantic as Dr. Hodge's Commentary on the Romans. In 1864 Dr. Hodge issued a second. edition of his larger work, thoroughly revised, in great measure rewritten, and taking advantage of any contributions of importance that had been made towards the exposition of the epistle during the interval that had elapsed since the publication of the first edition. It is of this last edition of the larger work that the volume now presented is a reprint. As the sheets passed through the press, the publishers placed them in the hands of a competent revising editor, and have thereby been enabled to secure for their reprint the following advantages: 1. The numerous Scripture references have been verified, and in many instances, where misprints had crept in, corrected. 2. In the American edition the references to Winer's Greek Grammar are made to one of the older editions of that work. In this reprint these references have been altered so as to suit the last edition of Winer. In those cases, however, in which, in the last edition, Winer has, in the passages referred to, either altered the views put forth in previous editions or his mode of expressing them, the references to the older editions have been retained, and a refer |