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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Volume 1 is unavailable, but you can change that!

For over one hundred years, the International Critical Commentary series has held a special place among works on the Bible. It has sought to bring together all the relevant aids to exegesis—linguistic and textual no less than archaeological, historical, literary and theological—with a level of comprehension and quality of scholarship unmatched by any other series. No attempt has been made to...

1 Th 5:8f; 2 Th 2:13. What may be called the negative content of salvation is indicated in 5:9: it is salvation from the final eschatological manifestation of the wrath of God. But there is also a positive content. It is the restoration of the δόξα which sinful men lack (compare the contrast between justification/ reconciliation and salvation in 5:9f with the contrast between justification and glorification in 8:30; compare also the description in Phil 3:20f of the work of Christ as σωτήρ as the
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