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THE POSSIBILITY OF PERFECT OBEDIENCE: PAUL AND AN IMPLIED PREMISE IN GALATIANS 3:10 AND 5:3 by MICHAEL CRANFORD La Mirada, CA That Paul believed that the law demanded perfect obedience of its Jewish adherents, and that such obedience was, due to human inability, never forthcoming, are suppositions underlying centuries of traditional scholarship in its interpretation of Romans and Gala- tians. This human inability to perform all the stipulations of the law is offered as the reason why works of law cannot save. Conse- quently, these assumptions bring content to the expression "works of law" (Gal. 2:16; 3:10; Rom 3:20, 28). "Works of law" refers to obedience to the law offered to merit salvation, an obedience which Paul sets over against faith, understood as a trust in God which does not involve human effort and therefore does not run aground on human inability. That Paul's argument as a whole, throughout Galatians and Romans, rests on his belief that the law demanded perfect obedience is an assumption under the traditional view of such importance that it cannot be overstated. While this thought of perfect obedience is never actually expressed in Romans, it is assumed as a critical tenet underlying chaps.
Novum Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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