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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...

emphasizes that he addresses every believer. It is unlikely that the measure of faith refers to the special gift of faith that is given to only some believers (1 Cor. 12:9), since the admonition is addressed to all believers (rightly Wilckens 1982: 11). I conclude, then, that Paul is speaking of the quantity of faith or trust that each believer possesses (so Schlatter 1995: 231; Murray 1965: 118–19; Michel 1966: 296–97; Dunn 1988b: 721–22; Sampley 1995b: 47; cf. Leenhardt 1961: 308–9). Paul acknowledges
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