In Your Mouth and In Your Heart (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781666794229)

Paul's use of Deuteronomy 30 in Romans 10 has puzzled interpreters and led to many divergent readings. In this book, Smothers argues that what Paul has found in Deuteronomy 30:11-14 is a prophetic promise of righteousness which he declares fulfilled in the gospel of the Lord Jesus, the message of the righteousness of faith. By quoting Deuteronomy 30:12-14 in Romans 10 as the content of the message of the righteousness of faith over against Leviticus 18:5 and the righteousness of the law in Romans 10:5-8, Paul proclaims a promise fulfilled in accord with the original meaning of the text written by Moses in Deuteronomy. More precisely, Paul reads Deuteronomy 30:11-14 as an extension of the reality foretold in Deuteronomy 30:1-10, which points forward to the new covenant experience of faith-empowered obedience, or heart circumcision, which includes the internalization of the word of God--the eschatological torah--by the Spirit of God.

Author: Colin J. Smothers
ISBN-10: 1666794228
ISBN-13: 9781666794229
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2022
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d