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What did Paul mean by ‘Those Who Know the Law’? (Rom 7.1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 November 2003

PETER J. TOMSON
Affiliation:
Universitaire Faculteit voor Protestantse Godgeleerdheid, Brussels, Belgium
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In the framework of his grand argument on the law in Rom 6 and 7, Paul in Rom 7.1-4 uses a comparison that specifically appeals to ‘those who know the law’.

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SHORT STUDY
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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

Footnotes

Short paper read in Dutch in a simpler form at the 2002 Studiosorum Novi Testamenti Conventus at Zeist, in the Netherlands. Translations of biblical passages are adapted from the RSV. I am obliged to the NTS Editors whose questions helped enhance the argument.