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ARRANGEMENT OF THE

EPISTLE TO THE

ROMANS.

WHO WAS THE AUTHOR of the Epistle to the Romans.

Paul’s
double
name

Concerning Paul the Apostle, one must speak in the first place, because by common consent he is the author not only of this but also of the following epistles, and by treating it more freely here, so that we do not have to digress into this subject later. Two names of his exist: for in the Acts chapters 7, 9, 13 he is called Saul, and in that same 13th chapter he is soon called Paul, by which name history always uses him thereafter, and so consistently that the divine Peter in his 2nd Epistle, chapter 3, preferred