It is authored by Paul the Apostle, while he was in Corinth in the mid-50s AD,[1] with the help of an amanuensis (secretary), Tertius, who adds his own greeting in Romans 16:22.

For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.Paul opens this part of his letter with another rhetorical question: "Has God cast away His people?

or *God forbid" (μη γενοιτο, mē genoito) regularly in this letter.

[b] On this occasion, he puts himself forward as an example to evidence his argument, "to show that God has not rejected His people en masse.

[11] Later in the chapter (Romans 11:13),[12] Paul also refers to himself as the "apostle of the gentiles" (εθνων αποστολος, ethnōn apostolos).