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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Romans 4:7

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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4:7-8 This quotation from Ps 32:1-2 follows the Jewish custom of supporting a reference to the Law with a reference in the Prophets or the Writings. Paul also uses a Jewish exegetical technique of linking unrelated quotations with a key word. Here, record . . . has cleared translates the same Greek word as “counted” in Rom 4:3.
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