Today: [Romans 15:] Paul’s First Closing of the Epistle to the Romans: In Romans 15 Paul attempts to sum up his letter (with one chapter however yet to be written). He gives the strongest appeal to Gentile believers to be patient with the Judaizers and legalists who believe in “Christ plus-“ their good works as the basis of an approach to God and capitulates finally to accepting the scope of his ministry as being to the Gentiles and not to his kinsmen the Jews.
