It’s true that all Scripture is “God-breathed.” (2 Tm 3:16) Every line of the Bible is a manifestation of the mind of God, and is there to give us a glimpse of who he really is. Every word is “profitable” and infused with divine beauty. But sometimes the beauty transcends from the heavenly down to even the mere literary level. And, I contend, there’s not a more beautiful book ever penned than that of the Epistle to the Romans, a work written by the “chief of sinners” himself (1 Tm 1:15), the apostle Paul. The Book of Romans has been called by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “the most profound writing that exists,” and “the premier example of epistolary writing” — not just of the Pauline letters, nor of the New Testament, “but also in
No condemnation.
No condemnation.
It’s true that all Scripture is “God-breathed.” (2 Tm 3:16) Every line of the Bible is a manifestation of the mind of God, and is there to give us a glimpse of who he really is. Every word is “profitable” and infused with divine beauty. But sometimes the beauty transcends from the heavenly down to even the mere literary level. And, I contend, there’s not a more beautiful book ever penned than that of the Epistle to the Romans, a work written by the “chief of sinners” himself (1 Tm 1:15), the apostle Paul. The Book of Romans has been called by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “the most profound writing that exists,” and “the premier example of epistolary writing” — not just of the Pauline letters, nor of the New Testament, “but also in
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