God’s people Israel.24 They could then invite Gentiles to enter this forgiven people, trusting that their future forgiveness would ensue from their faith in Jesus, the Messiah, and from their observance of the Law as ratified by him. It is an hypothesis worthy of consideration (see Comment #28). However that may be, one point is certain: The formula is to a significant degree foreign to Paul’s own theology; for it identifies discrete sins as humanity’s (in the first instance Israel’s) fundamental
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