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Since the time of Luther, Paul’s epistle to the Romans has been understood as an evangelistic letter, where salvation was understood as a synonym for justification. Romans: Deliverance from Wrath, by author Zane Hodges, offers a different perspective. In his careful new translation and commentary, Hodges discusses the difference between justification and salvation, and between eternal destiny...

The key word in this concept is the Greek verb phroneō, translated here by have their minds set on. This verb occurs for the first time in Romans in this verse (and elsewhere in Romans only at 12:3, 16; 14:6; and 15:5, in different settings). Here, however, the cognate noun phronēma, as well, occurs in 8:6, 7, 27 and nowhere else in the NT. The concept involved in these two words is crucial to Paul’s thought in this section (8:1–13). The use of phroneō in Rom 8:5 belongs under the second category
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