Analytical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans: Tracing the Train of Thought by the Aid of Parallelism, With Notes and Dissertations on the Exposition of the Epistle

Excerpt from Analytical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans: Tracing the Train of Thought by the Aid of Parallelism, With Notes and Dissertations on the Principal Difficulties Connected With the Exposition of the Epistle
Amidst the multiplicity of Commentaries that we possess on the Epistles of St Paul, there seems still to be a want of a concise Analytical Commentary, the great object of which shall be to enable the Biblical student, while keeping prominently before him the text, to trace the plan and train of thought followed by the Apostle, to mark the transitions and connecting links in the argument, and to perceive the mutual relations and interdependence of its various parts. Instead of the profusion of notes on every minute phrase and difficulty, amidst which the connexion is lost and the attention distracted and wearied, such a Commentary ought to he so brief as to enable the reader, almost at one sitting, to survey the whole subject in its general bearings and connexion - the peculiar difficulties and points requiring elucidation being reserved for separate notes or dissertations.
To furnish such an analysis, no method (it has long appeared to the author) is so well adapted as the arrangement of the text by Parallelism. By grouping the Epistle into the original paragraphs designed by the author, Parallelism enables us to concentrate our attention on a small portion till its leading idea is discovered. Proceeding thus paragraph after paragraph, and stating to ourselves in concise terms the leading idea elicited in each, we can compare it successively with the paragraphs that precede and follow, and gradually ascertain the true relations and connexion of the whole.
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