[B-Greek] Rom. 1:17

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 2 07:26:26 EST 2005


At 3:01 AM -0600 3/2/05, Charles Rempel wrote:
>Howard,
>
>I see EK PISTEWS as "saving faith", the one time act of volition wherein the
>unsaved is justified, Romans 3:28. And EIS PISTIN as "living faith", i.e.,
>the righteous who has already been justified, must live by it. I would agree
>with the idea that living faith would cover the idea of ever increasing
>levels.

While this is intelligible and just may be right, I think it ought to be
admitted that there's no way to derive this sense from the Greek
construction itself; i.e. this interpretation is speculative.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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