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In On Romans and Other New Testament Essays, C.E.B. Cranfield applies his exhaustive understanding of the book of Romans to issues about which there is currently much lively debate. Topics considered include what Paul meant by “the works of the law”, whether Paul meant pistis Christou to be understood as “faith in Christ” or “Christ’s faith”, and whether the Old Testament law has a continuing...

people of the law’,14 he has lost sight of Paul’s argument. He should have referred back not just one and a half chapters, but right back to 1:18 where this section begins. Paul’s concern from 1:18 on has surely been to lead up to the conclusion expressed in 3:20a and then restated in the opening lines of the next section in 3:23 (RV: ‘For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God’), namely, that all human beings are sinners (Jesus Christ alone excepted) whose only possibility of being
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