Key-word, “Righteousness;” Key-verse, 1:17.-Paul was peculiarly fitted for a great work among the Gentile nations, being by birth a Hebrew, by citizenship a Roman, by culture a Greek. He was divinely chosen to lay the foundations on which rests the whole scheme of salvation. Righteousness or justification is his theme. God’s law is the only standard; God’s righteousness the only righteousness: by sin we have incurred condemnation; by faith we receive justification. All have sinned and come short; but the righteousness of God by faith in Christ, becomes the righteousness of the believer. [p. 107] HBS 43.2