Here is the preface to the epistle, showing, I. The writer. Paul , a Gentile name taken by the apostle of the Gentiles, Acts 13:9 , 46 , 47 . Ministers will accommodate even smaller matters, so that they may be any furthering of acceptance in their work. When the Jews rejected the gospel, and the Gentiles received it, we read no more of this apostle by his Jewish name Saul , but by his Roman one, ...