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• Title: The Trust of Abraham and the Trust of Jesus Christ: Romans 1:17.
• Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
• Release Date : January 01, 2003
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 257 KB

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Both the end of the Preamble of Paul's Letter to the Romans (1:16) and the following transition (1:17) into his analysis of the human condition are introduced by the adverbial conjunction "for" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]). Paul wants to explain why he is apostolically under obligation to "Greeks and barbarians, to wise and foolish." As an apostle he is free, as he had claimed in 1 Cor 9:1; and yet necessity is laid upon him not only to evangelize without charge (9:16-18) but also to fulfill his apostolic commitment to the Gentiles. On the one hand, he is not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God that is teleologically oriented "unto" or "towards salvation" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]). On the other hand, he is not ashamed of the gospel because it discloses the reality of "the justice of God." As a Jew and as a former "Pharisee of the Pharisees," he has been engaged in pursuing God's righteousness. That pursuit has finally been fulfilled in his submission to the gospel of Jesus Christ, for, as he acknowledges, "in it the justice of God is revealed." Even as the gospel is God's power "to everyone who believes," the gospel is also the disclosure of God's justice [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.]. (1) How is this double prepositional phrase to be translated? A literal rendition, "out of faith into faith" is no more intelligible than the translations that are offered by the versions that are in print today.

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