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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...

deriving from the cult (Luke 2:22; Eph. 5:27; Col. 1:28; Num. 16:9; Ps. 5:3 [5:4 LXX]); Josephus, Ant. 4.6.4 §113; J.W. 2.6.2 §89; cf. Sanday and Headlam 1902: 352; Cranfield 1979: 598; Käsemann 1980: 327; Newton 1985: 70–71; Dunn 1988b: 709). Such cultic terminology dominates the rest of verse 1, indicating that Paul now applies the sacrificial language of the OT to the Roman Christians. Believers are summoned to present “their bodies” (σώματα ὑμῶν, sōmata hymōn, your bodies) to God.
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