Many today would listen to the text of Paul’s Letter to the believers at Rome through the history of exegesis and track its interpretation first back through the consensus (general agreement among members of a given group or community) of the magisterial Reformation tradition, then comparing that to the Fathers and then finally back to text in the New Testament (NT) itself, letting its relevance for today speak for itself. Many successfully achieve the first two parts of the purpose in that they track the interpretation back to the Reformation and then to the Fathers. However, when they proceed to the NT usage of the subject, their validation remains in the Fathers—they quote from them as if they were not sure of how biblical exegesis relates to the subject at hand. If they had gone back to the Text itself or simply verified the Fathers’ interpretation of the passages in question, their work would have been much more valuable to us who prefer biblical exegesis based on a literal, historical, grammatical, rhetorical interpretation.