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Few individual books of the Bible have changed the course of church history the way Paul’s letter to the Romans has. Whether we think of Augustine’s conversion in the fourth century, Luther’s recovery of justification by faith in the sixteenth or Barth’s challenge to reestablish the primacy of theological exegesis of the Bible in the twentieth, Romans has been the catalyst to personal spiritual...

fit the centrality of the law in this passage and the Jewish nature of 7:7–25, but it does not quite do justice to the whole passage (see the discussion in the next paragraph). The centrality of the law in chapter 7 does not prove that Paul has Israel in mind because the law is also central in chapter 8 (vv. 2, 3, 4, 7), a passage that no one doubts describes the Christian life. The best is a combination of the first and fourth views. Morris (1988:277) says, “In this chapter he keeps on using the
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