
Romans (Part 47) - Who Wrote Romans?
[Romans 16:21-24 ESV]
21 Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you; so do Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my kinsmen.
22 I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.
23 Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus, greet you.
Timothy
Lucius (possibly in Acts 13:1-3)
Jason (probably in Acts 17:5-9)
Sosipater (possibly Sopater in Acts 20:4)
Tertius and Quartus are not mentioned elsewhere in Scripture.
Gaius (probably the same person seen in 1 Corinthians 1:14, and possibly in Acts 19:29, Acts 20:4-5)
Erastus (probably in Acts 19:22, probably in 2 Timothy 4:20)
In the lives of the men mentioned here,
we see a beautiful picture of the Church:
A people rescued and cleansed by the Lord Jesus Christ;
who then spend their lives, in many diverse ways,
to serve and spread the Kingdom of God.
[Romans 16:22 ESV]
I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.
Who Wrote Romans?
[Romans 1:1 ESV]
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
[1 Corinthians 16:21 ESV]
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.
[Colossians 4:18 ESV]
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand…
[Philemon 1:19 ESV]
I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it…
[Galatians 6:11 ESV]
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
[2 Thessalonians 3:17 ESV]
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the sign of genuineness in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.
Why would he do this?
[Galatians 6:11 ESV]
See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.
Is this problematic?
[2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV]
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
[2 Timothy 3:15 ESV]
and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
[1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV]
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
The VERY WORDS OF GOD
What did Jesus say about Scripture, during His First Coming? How did He view It?
[Matthew 5:17-18 ESV]
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
[John 10:35 ESV]
… Scripture cannot be broken–…
[Matthew 22:23, 29, 31-32 ESV]
23 The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question, …
29 But Jesus answered them, “You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God. …
31 And as for the resurrection of the dead,
have you not read what was said to you by God:
32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob’? He is not God of the dead, but of the living.”
[John 5:39-40 ESV]
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is They that bear witness about me, 40 yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.
Wouldn’t they forget what Jesus said?
[John 14:26 ESV]
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
[John 16:13 ESV]
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
It wasn’t simply a natural work based on men’s intellect or memory,
but a supernatural work dependent on the Spirit of God.
[2 Peter 3:15-16 ESV]
And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.
Is it problematic that Paul used Tertius to pen these Words?
Are they any less God-inspired?
Outside of Paul, were any other Books of the Bible penned by a scribe?
[Jeremiah 36:1-4 ESV]
1 In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: 2 “Take a scroll and write on it all the words that I have spoken to you against Israel and Judah and all the nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the days of Josiah until today. 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the disaster that I intend to do to them, so that every one may turn from his evil way, and that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.” 4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD that he had spoken to him.
[2 Peter 1:20 ESV]
… no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. 21 For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
[Romans 16:22 ESV]
I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.
[Romans 16:23 ESV]
… Erastus, the city treasurer…