The explanation that rom is a corruption of romance and that the book of rom is simply the book of romance or the book written in the romance language, French, can easily be supported.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
Martin says: Note also that they put the word 'just,' when faith is joined withal, as rom.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos
The opposition between Faith and Law, of which St. Paul so often speaks, is the opposition between this broad view of the ultimate Principle of the Creative Law and that narrower view of restriction by particular laws, which prevents us from grasping the Law of Faith; but that he does not deny the Principle of Law, that is the relation between C and E, is clear from his own statement in rom.
"The Law and the Word"
Thomas Troward