Friday, February 3, 2012

The Most Important Paragraph Ever Penned

Can one overstate the place and importance of Paul's gospel paragraph in Romans 3? I'm talking, of course, about vv. 21-26. I doubt it. Leon Morris says this of that powerful paragraph:
In what is possibly the most important single paragraph ever written, Paul brings out something of the grandeur of Christ's saving work. He speaks of the righteousness of God, the sin of man, and the salvation of Christ. He views this salvation in three ways: as justification (imagery from the law court), as redemption (imagery from the slave market), and as propitiation (imagery from the averting of wrath).
The Epistle to the Romans (Eerdmans: Grand Rapids, 1988), p. 173.

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