from the dead (cf. esp. the “definition” of Christian faith given in 10:8–9: “This is the word [rēma] of faith which we preach: that if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved”). What is crucial about faith as the vehicle of human access to righteousness is that, unlike righteousness tied to the Jewish law, it opens up the possibility of righteousness on a universal scale (eis pantas tous pisteuontas). In the preceding