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Romans 9 is the ninth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It is authored by Paul the Apostle , while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, [ 1 ] with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius , who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22 . [ 2 ]
Romans 8 is the eighth chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It was authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, [1] with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius, who added his own greeting in Romans 16:22. [2] Chapter 8 concerns "the Christian's spiritual life".
There is strong, albeit indirect, evidence that a recension of Romans that lacked chapters 15 and 16 was widely used in the western half of the Roman Empire until the mid-4th century. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] This conclusion is partially based on the fact that a variety of Church Fathers , such as Origen and Tertullian , refer to a fourteen-chapter ...
Papyrus 46, one of the oldest New Testament manuscripts (c. 200), contains the last eight chapters of Romans; all of Hebrews; virtually all of 1–2 Corinthians; all of Ephesians, Galatians, Philippians, Colossians; and two chapters of 1 Thessalonians. Because it is damaged there is no scholarly consensus on whether to consider the omission of ...
A connection between 'law' and 'sin' was stated in the earlier parts of the epistle (Romans 3:20, 4:15, 5:13, and 5:20), but because this is regarded "surprising and controversial" for most readers, Paul elaborates more in chapter 6 and 7, especially in verses 5–12 where the law itself is said to be a cause of sin.
This chapter concludes the section of the letter in which "St. Paul teaches us about the eternal providence of God" [3] with particular reference to the election of a chosen people, Israel (Romans 9:11), [4] who have become disobedient (Romans 11:31), [5] and in whose place a remnant have been chosen (Romans 11:5) [6] and grafted into place ...
Romans 16 is the sixteenth (and the final) chapter of the Epistle to the Romans in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It was authored by Paul the Apostle , while Paul was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD, [ 1 ] with the help of a secretary ( amanuensis ), Tertius , who adds his own greeting in verse 22 . [ 2 ]
After setting guards on the houses of the pro-Roman faction, Marcellus gave Syracuse to plunder. [8] Frustrated and angered after the lengthy and costly siege, the Romans rampaged through the citadel and slaughtered many of the Syracusans where they stood and enslaved most of the rest. The city was then thoroughly looted and sacked.