Corpus-Paul

["moon-ryul jung" <moon AT saint.soongsil.ac.kr>]

Dear Antonio,

you wrote:
> 
> I believe Mark's interpretation run into heavy difficulties - not the =
> least with
> Romans chapter 1-8. As I see it Paul's whole argumentation is leading
> towards one inescapable conclusion: that the Law could never be
> the vehicle towards Israels salvation - only Christ could be that. When =
> Paul
> says that "Now, however WE are released from the Law; we have been dead
> to what once held us in its grip... (7:6) " 

This verse may mean different things to different persons, depending
on the assumptions they have. Mark assumes that 
Romans is about the relationship between the Jews and the Gentiles, and
Paul never put down the Law or the life under the Law in itself. 
I would guess that Mark, based on that assumption, will take the verse to
mean "We, the Jews, are released from the [constraint of] the Law, [which
prohibits us from getting together with the Gentiles]".

Sincerely
Moon

Moon R. Jung
Associate Professor
Sogang University
Seoul, Korea

he is talking to both Jew =
> and gentile.
> The WE includes both himself and his gentiles. Rom. 7:9-24 makes it even
> clearer. This has little to do with with Christ putting down barriers =
> between
> Jews and Gentiles, but a lot more with arguing that the Mosaic Torah =
> could
> never be the "curative medicine" many Jews believed it was.
>