Professor Dodd writes in his Introduction: The Epistle to the Romans is the first great work of Christians theology. For us men of western Christendom there is probably no other single writing so deeply embedded in our heritage of thought. Having established his conviction of the importance of this Epistle from the birth of Christianity to the resent day, he goes on to write a commentary of surpassing beauty and clarity. His scholarship is impeccable, but so is his English. Professor Dodd makes this great Epistle live for the Layman as well as the theologian in a way that no other commentary does or is likely to do.