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Romans Unlocked is a commentary on Paul’s epistle written with the clear theological insight of faith, and with the conviction that an epistle must be read as a whole. René A. Lopez brings his extensive familiarity with the interpretive literature surrounding Romans, as well as the broader discussion of Paul and second Temple Judaism, to bear in this commentary. Where the literature relates to...

refer to any future resurrection but to the inherent problem of sin in the present life of the believer. (2) The body is dead because of sin may be understood in terms of the Romans 6 principle where Christians, at the point of Spirit baptism into Christ, died to the power of sin’s dominion (c.f., 6:1–11; Käsemann, Romans, 224; Barrett, Romans, 149; Ziesler, Romans, 211; Bultmann, TDNT, 4:894). Though some have argued this is not death to sin as in 6:2, 11 but death because of sin (Schreiner, Romans,
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