Ezekiel, he is most certainly in the same conceptual world as the key passages we have looked at from those two prophets. When Paul speaks of an inward circumcision of the heart (2:28–29) linked with obedience from the heart, we are in the conceptual world of the weeping prophet and of Ezekiel. It is appropriate to glance forward to the end of Romans 3, where Paul explicitly raises a potential misunderstanding of his teaching: does faith ‘overthrow’ the law? Certainly not! Rather, Paul writes, ‘we
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