In the series of "The Century Bible," under the general
editorship of Professor W. F. Adeney, we have Romans, edited by Alfred E. Garvie (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 2s. net). There is first an introduction giving the circumstances under which the letter was written, and its general purport and bearing; next, the text of the Authorised Version printed continuously; and the text of the Revised Version with a running commentary. We would specially commend to our readers the discussion of verses 12.21. The transcendently important questions of the primitive condition of man, and the causal connection between sin and death, are discussed. On the latter we will quote a few sentences :—" Paul meant by death not physical dissolution merely, but death in its totality as it is for human consciousness: Can it be denied that the terror and darkness of death for the mind and heart of man is due in large measure to his sense of guilt, and the effects of sin, in his reason, conscience, spirit ? Lhrist abolishes death, not by preventing physical dissolution, but by giving the fact a new meaning, by allowing man to see it from the standpoint, not of human guiit, but of Divine grace. In a sinless race death as an experience would have been very different from what it is."
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