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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...

spiritual gifts given to each believer. Murray shows (1968:118–19) how this relates to “distinct endowments distributed among the members of the Christian community,” called “the measure of faith in the restricted sense of the faith that is suited to the exercise of this gift.” This makes best sense of the whole context: different members in the church having different gifts (vv. 4–6) provides a good parallel with the measure of faith sufficient for each to discover his or her gift and therefore
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