2. Sin And Retribution: The Universal Need Diagnosed (1:18–3:20)
2. Sin And Retribution: The Universal Need Diagnosed (1:18–3:20)
E. Brunner, The Mediator (1934), p. 478.
B. Gärtner, The Areopagus Speech and Natural Revelation (1955), p. 137.
M. D. Hooker, ‘Adam in Romans 1’, NTS 6 (1959–60), p. 301.
See S. K. Stowers, The Diatribe and Paul’s Letter to the Romans (1981); cf. p. 102, n. 12, below.
Cf. 3:5; 4:1; 6:1; 7:7; 8:31; 9:14, 30, and the similar ‘You will say to me then’ in 9:19; 11:19.
See J. N. Sevenster, Paul and Seneca (1962).
‘Seneca saepe noster’, says Tertullian; ‘Seneca, so often one of ourselves’ (On the Soul 20).
Compare Paul’s argument in 1 Cor. 11:32.
Church Dogmatics I/2 (1956), p. 304; II/2 (1957), pp. 242, 604; IV/1 (1956), pp. 33, 369, 395.
G. Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English, p. 114.
A further list is given in Rom. 9:4–5.
The diatribe pattern (see p. 92) is commonly thought to be followed in verses 1–8, but see D. R. Hall, ‘Romans 3:1–8 reconsidered’, NTS 29 (1983), pp. 183–197.
N. A. Dahl, ‘Romans 3.9: Text and meaning’ in Paul and Paulinism, ed. M. D. Hooker and S. G. Wilson (1982), pp. 184–204. The question can be rendered at least three ways; the answer at least two ways.
