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Word Pictures in the New Testament brings to scholars, pastors, and lay Bible teachers interpretive insights on words and phrases from each book of the New Testament from one of the outstanding biblical scholars of the twentieth century. The material is arranged book by book, beginning with chapter one of the book and moving sequentially through the book. This treasure trove represents a lifetime...

new life in Christ is pictured with an allusion to Christ’s own resurrection and to our final resurrection. Paul does not mean to say that the new life in Christ is caused or created by the act of baptism. That is grossly to misunderstand him. The Gnostics and the Judaizers were sacramentalists, but not so Paul the champion of spiritual Christianity. He has just given the spiritual interpretation to circumcision which itself followed Abraham’s faith (Rom. 4:10–12). Cf. Gal. 3:27. Baptism gives a
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