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In the latest addition to BECNT, Pauline scholar Thomas Schreiner presents a fresh analysis of the substantive Book of Romans. It features many distinctives. “I have tried to write a scholarly commentary that fulfills the goals of brevity and lucidity,” Schreiner explains. “One of my goals has been to trace the flow of thought in the letter so that the reader can understand how the argument...

What does it mean, though, to say that believers have died to sin? Cranfield (1975: 299–300) nicely lays out the options. (1) We died to sin in God’s sight, that is, in a forensic or juridical sense; (2) we died to sin in a sacramental sense, in that we died with Christ and were raised with him in baptism; (3) we die to sin in a moral sense, in that we mortify sin in our bodies; (4) we die to sin when we actually die physically.4 View number 4 can be rejected immediately, for it makes nonsense
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