Romans: Deliverance from Wrath
Overview
Since the time of Luther, Paul’s epistle to the Romans has been understood as an evangelistic letter, where salvation was understood as a synonym for justification.
Romans: Deliverance from Wrath, by author Zane Hodges, offers a different perspective. In his careful new translation and commentary, Hodges discusses the difference between justification and salvation, and between eternal destiny and eternal rewards. Exceedingly insightful and practical, this text will challenge you to live a life pleasing to God, without doubting your eternal destiny. As you study Paul’s epistle verse by verse, you will better understand how to glorify God more fully, both now and in the life to come.
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- Provides a careful new translation of Romans
- Includes an outline and commentary, facilitating your study of Romans
- Offers unique insight into the concept of justification and the words save and salvation
Top Highlights
“Thus v 16 states that the gospel Paul preaches is the vehicle for the power of God by which men can be delivered from His temporal wrath.” (Page 36)
“What we have here is a statement of principle, not of fact. As” (Page 64)
“Thus He is indeed the Spirit of holiness since it is He who produces holiness in Christian experience.1 In so referring to Him here, Paul implicitly articulates a fundamental truth of this book. The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is the divine Source of true holiness.” (Pages 26–27)
“In the light of Paul’s teaching in Gal 4:1–7, it is natural here to take the expression the sons of God (huioi Theou) as a reference to the life-experience of the adult son who is not under the law. In contrast to the earlier struggle (described in Rom 7:7–25) in which the regenerate inner man strived vainly to fulfill God’s law, now the one led by the Spirit lives the life of an adult son who is no longer under the law (note especially 6:14).” (Page 221)
“The orientation of the individual Christian—that is, their focus, or mind-set—is seen by Paul as a pivotal element in the Christian ‘walk.’” (Page 214)
- Title: Romans: Deliverance from Wrath
- Author: Zane C. Hodges
- Editor: Robert N. Wilkin
- Publisher: Grace Evangelical Society
- Publication Date: 2013
- Pages: 488
Reviews
6 ratings
Rob Matlack
4/21/2023
Hodges's translation of the Greek text alone is worth the price. His scholarship is top-shelf and is supported by lexicographers and grammarians. Hodges's skill in coming to the argument of Paul shows his mastery of the hermeneutical spiral.Tero Fredriksson
10/26/2017
This is one of the best commentaries on Romans along James Dunn's commentary. It has some similarities with the NPP. For example Hodges does not see that the argument of the letter is not built around the justification by faith alone but what it takes to have faithful Christian life.Gordon M. Johnson
4/19/2016
This is one of the worst commentaries on Romans that I own. In my sermon prep I do read it, but only to get a handle on what a small group of American Christians, the so-called "free gracers", think. My main issue is that on almost every significant passage, Hodges turns the clear meaning on its head by imposing some condition on the text. No one who reads Romans closely would come to the conclusions that Hodges does without an outside (of Romans) agenda. This is not a great commentary and I do not recommend it.
M. David Johnson
3/27/2015
Justin Cofer
12/23/2014
