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In The Grace of God, the author begins with a word study of the Hebrew and Greek words for “grace” in the Old and New Testament economies. He demonstrates the place of faith in the Old Testament and the relationship of election and grace in the Mosaic law. He then delineates the particular functions of grace through various sections of Scripture with emphasis on the Pauline concept of law and...

grace, charis, even more than chen. “In the New Testament period charis would be felt to have a close relation with chesed, and it is evident that the associations of that word had influence in moulding the characteristic New Testament use of charis, which is different from any ordinary Greek use and not quite identical with the Septuagint charis = chen.”8 Gesenius thinks the primary meaning of the root to be that of “eager and ardent desire by which anyone is led.”9 Apparently the root meaning allows
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