Character of the theme—The Rome of Claudius and of Nero—Intercourse—
Population—Slavery—The ‘Freedman’ Class—Alien admixture—
The Jewish Colony and its history—Its privileges and characteristics—
Judaism attractive—Proselytes and ‘God-fearers’—The Synagogues—
Soil prepared for Christianity—The Laureolus—The Jews expelled
by Claudius—Aquila and Prisca at Corinth—Their antecedents
and position—Their close intercourse with St. Paul—St. Paul at Ephesus—
His Journey to Greece—He writes to the Roman Church from
Corinth—The Epistle to the Romans: an Apologia—St. Paul’s proposed
visit to Rome—Three groups of Roman Christians addressed—The impelling
motive of the Epistle—The Judaeo-Christians at Rome—The Salutations
of Chap. xvi. 1-23—Genuineness of the passage—Criticism
dealt with—The Church in the house of Prisca and Aquila—Was this
Ecclesia Domestica existent before 57 A.D.?—The Apostles Andronicus
and Junias—The households of Aristobulus and Narcissus—The autobiographic
passage Chap. xv. 14-29—‘Another man’s foundation’—Was
the other man St. Peter?