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Leading biblical scholar Thomas Schreiner provides an easy-to-navigate resource for studying and understanding the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Letters. This accessibly written volume summarizes the content of each major section of the biblical text to help readers quickly grasp the sense of particular passages. This is the first volume in the Handbooks on the New Testament series, which...

arguments but to provoke believers to praise God for the grace poured out upon them in salvation. The second blessing is redemption (1:7–8), and again the lavishness of God’s grace is celebrated. Redemption focuses on God’s great act of deliverance, recalling Israel’s liberation from Egyptian slavery by God’s power (Exod. 6:6). Here the deliverance is from our trespasses, our deliberate flouting of God’s will. The deliverance took place at a price, through the blood of Christ; the word “blood,” as
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