ABSTRACT
Written c.ad 55, and one of the most important of Paul’s letters. Luther wrote a celebrated commentary on it, and it became a favourite text for sixteenth-century reformers, including Tyndale, who drew heavily upon it. Its argument is dense and complex, elaborating his major themes: that the virtue of the Law was to identify evil and set an ideal for human conduct; that this ideal was unattainable and had become a burden in itself; and that only Christ could set the world free of the opposing bonds of evil and the Law.
