Antoinette Clark Wire

The Rhetoric of Romans

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Revolutionary ... It turns out that Romans is not Galatians writ large – our justification assured against Judaizers – but quite the reverse – our assurance put at stake in God's faithfulness to Israel. We gentiles who see ourselves as the apple of God's eye thus learn jealousy and repentance with Paul's Israel, so preparing the ground for the second inclusion that does not forget where alone righteousness lies or the way of grace that leads there.”