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  • From: "Rabbi Saul" <tim AT rabbisaul.com>
  • To: "Corpus-Paul" <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Coherence and sovereignty (Was: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Gal 2:19 & Rom7)
  • Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 13:03:13 -0600


 
In other words, it is quest for forgiveness and mercy apart from knowledge of reality?  No, that makes no sense.  David speaks unequivocably there:  *no man living* is righteous in some sense.  And yet he is confident that he can appeal to God at another point of contact. 


David wrote Psalm 143?  And Paul quoted David?  And if "no man living" is righteous than you are on the horns of a dilemma, because Jesus was human (as well as divine- according to classical christianity).  I still think your views are more Lutheran than exegetical.  I cannot escape this sensation. 

Paul cites David; commentators are pretty much agreed that Rom 3.20/Gal 2.16 is an allusion to Ps 143.2.  Of course, Paul, in line with his eschatology, tweaks the citation, moving it from "no one living" to "no flesh."  This reflects his view that life under the old creation is not life, but death (see the parallels of Sin and death in Romans 5).
 
There is no dilemma, because Paul clearly intends throughout to show that Jesus is the one human being who has been under flesh without being sinful.  Yet even *His* flesh comes under the judgment of death.  It is precisely because He falls into the spotless category that He is a sin offering that *exhausts* ("fulfills") the "righteous sentence" (dikaiwma) of Torah against sin (8.3-4). 
 
Whatever your sensation, that is not Lutheran exegesis.
 
tim
 
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