as, earlier in the epistle, works and faith are coordinate. Evidently calling and faith correspond … Not works but faith leads to justification; not works but God’s call admits to the promise. These are different ways of expressing the same truth’.68 This is exactly right. And it is another indication of the close connection of Romans 9–11 to the preceding chapters of the epistle argued for in my previous volume.69 Indeed, in harmony with our view of Romans 9–11 as partially a defence of the gospel