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Romans 10:5–13 revisited

Author(s) -

Willem H. Oliver

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

hts teologiese studies / theological studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2072-8050

pISSN - 0259-9422

DOI - 10.4102/hts.v71i3.2929

Subject(s) - righteousness , philosophy , statement (logic) , existentialism , value (mathematics) , theology , literature , art , epistemology , mathematics , statistics

The aim of this article is to investigate Romans 10:5–13 and specifically the impact of the chiasm (chiasmus) in Romans 10:9–10 on this sub-pericope. In the chiasm Paul makes the following statement(s):

A If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord B and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, C you will be saved. B For with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, A and with the mouth/he confesses, resulting in salvation.

What gives the chiasm existential value here is the fact that this is the only passage in which Paul uses confess with your mouth as a condition for salvation. The sub-pericope will be discussed against the background of the introduction to the letter (Rm 1:16–17) as well as Romans 3:21–31.

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