seem to stress what “is written in the book of the law.”15 Thus, a passage which may have been a prooftext of his Judaizing opponents for covenantal nomism places them in an inescapable dilemma wherein disobedience seems unavoidable. The Torah enjoins both law and faith. If I am correct in my construction of Paul’s argument, his thesis appears to create a tension in the law (Torah): an antithesis between faith and law (torah). The law is not of faith but the law nonetheless enjoins faith, all the