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Romans: An Orthodox Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

God seems to have chosen the Apostle Paul to demonstrate—arguably more than in any other person in Christian history—how the life “in Christ” arrives at insight through experience. If this is the case of Paul more than any other person in Christian history, the reason may be simply that Paul’s words are the Word of God. His epistles stand forever as the divinely chosen model of how the Christian...

deliverance from sin and corruption. Paul speaks of its four times in these few verses. The “faith in Jesus Christ” (verses 22, 26; Galatians 2:16, 20) is literally the “faith of Jesus Christ.” It is not simply an objective genitive, “faith in Jesus.” This plenary genitive; it means, “faith in all matters that concern Jesus Christ,” faith in the entire dispensation of grace through Jesus Christ, including the faith that Jesus modelled for us in the course of accomplishing our redemption (cf. Hebrews
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