A CORRESPONDENT asks for an explanation of Rom. 13: 8, which reads as follows:—“Owe no man anything; but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.” In this chapter, the apostle Paul has been instructing the Romans concerning their duties and obligations to God and their fellow-beings. We do not think that the apostle intends these words, “Owe no man anything,” to be taken in their strictest sense; for our Saviour, in his sermon on the mount, said, “Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.” Circumstances sometimes arise, by accident or otherwise, when it seems necessary to incur debts; and in these instances, we should have compassion on such, and help bear their burdens, and thus fulfill the law of love. But that it is a sin to contract debts in speculation, or to borrow money to expend unnecessarily upon ourselves, no one would deny. The latter part of this verse, “He that loveth another hath fulfilled the law,” is clearly explained by the 10th verse of the same chapter; also, Gal. 5: 14; James 2: 8; &c. N. E. S.