SUMMARY OF ST. PAUL’S LETTER TO THE ROMANS
BIBLICAL PERIOD | THE MESSIANIC AGE / THE FINAL AGE OF MAN | ||||||||
FOCUS | Application of the Righteousness of God | Application of God’s Righteousness in the Old Covenant | Application of God’s Righteousness in the New Covenant | ||||||
COVENANT | NEW COVENANT IN CHRIST | ||||||||
SCRIPTURE | 1:1 | 1:16 | 2:1 | 4:1 | 5:11 | 6:1 | 9:1 | 12:116:37 | |
DIVISION | Greets the Church | All mankind needs salvation | Election of the Old Covenant people of God | Fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant | Jesus Christ the new Adam | Freedom in Christ & Life in the Spirit | Destiny of Israel | The life of Christian discipleship & Epilogue | |
TOPIC | Faith, sin, and justification | Deliverance and sanctification | |||||||
Doctrine of Salvation |
Spiritual life of Christians |
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LOCATION | CORINTH [GREECE] | ||||||||
TIME | Winter of 57/58 AD |
TIME LINE (AD)
WORLD EMPIRE: ———————————————————Rome————————————————————————
30 AD | 36 AD | 42 AD | 57/58 AD | 64 AD | 67 AD |
Resurrection Ascension 2nd Pentecost |
Peter pastors the Church at Antioch | Peter founds the Church in Rome | Paul writes to the Church in Rome | Roman Persecution of Christians | Martyrdom of Sts. Peter and Paul |
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*please note that for the ancients there was no concept of a 0-place value. The counting of any sequence of days or years always begins with the first number. All dates are approximate. Bishop Eusebius, the 4th century Bishop of Caesarea noted in his Church History that Pope St. Clement testified that Peter was in Antioch, Syria for 7 years and was in Rome for 25 years.