subject is the believer and the context is determinative. For situated, as it is, amid eight other nouns in a list of human virtues, pistis must here be understood as well as the human virtue of faithfulness, that is produced in the believer’s life by the faithful God through his Spirit.14 Longenecker states that faith (as a “response of trust”) is the sort of default meaning for πίστις in Paul and that such a meaning is something sensibly distinct from faithfulness (which he implies is a less-common
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