OF ST. PAUL'S EPISTLE ΤΟ THE CHRISTIANS IN ROME TRACED AND ILLUSTRATED. BY THE REV. C. P. SHEPHERD, M.A., MAGDALEN COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; INCUMBENT OF SOUTH LAMBETH CHAPEL. VOL. II. PARTS II AND III. LONDON: BELL AND DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET. 1864. 100. v. 34. PREFACE. THIS Volume has been long delayed, and its contents no doubt marred, by severe domestic affliction. It is however now published, like the former, not because I suppose that I have a mission to instruct others than the souls committed to my charge, but for the sake of my own people, who desired to have a permanent record of my exposition to them of this Epistle. Still I believe that these Volumes will be found very useful to that large and increasing class of earnest and thoughtful Christians, who have neither leisure nor learning to master the elaborate and learned commentaries of our great Divines. For their sakes also I have carefully abstained from |