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The apostle Paul lived within a swirl of controversy. False Christians—Judaizers—dogged his every step, slandering his motives, denying his apostolic authority, and seeking to overthrow his Gospel teaching. They argued their case loudly, and Paul knew that he must give the literary performance of his life. The result was the Epistle to the Romans, in which he demonstrates the truth of his...

to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. The apostle answers the objection of the Judaizer that the implication of his teaching is that one should remain on in the sin that grace might grow—that one should wallow in sin so as to provide plenty of scope for the grace of God. St. Paul indignantly rejects the idea that this follows from his teaching. It is an utter impossibility! For how shall we who died to sin still live in it? He here appeals to what he assumes all know (or are they
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