Karl Barth on the knowledge of the Epistle to the Romans

from READING KARL BARTH by Kenneth Oakes (Cascade Books)

Barth even cautions . . . "The reader 

therefore who, armed with the knowledge of

the Epistle to the Romans, him/herself advances

to the attack, has thereby failed to perceive the

attack which the Epistle to the Romans makes

upon her/him"